Adaptation strategies | Percent responses to climatic stresses | |||
Dry spells | Flood | Pest and disease | Heavy rains | |
Building water harvesting structures | 33.8 | 6.9 | 0 | 8.8 |
Building soil and water conservation | 26.3 | 42.5 | 0 | 40 |
Introduce micro-irrigation | 34.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Growing early maturing crop varieties | 67.5 | 24.4 | 52.5 | 22.5 |
Use improve seed | 0 | 0 | 60.6 | 0 |
Growing drought-resistant crop varieties | 81.3 | 0 | 29.4 | 0 |
Use crop rotation | 0 | 1.3 | 83.1 | 5 |
Use inter-cropping | 0 | 1.3 | 68.1 | 9.4 |
Use mixed farming | 64.8 | 30 | 63.8 | 34.4 |
Change crop calendar | 56.9 | 12 | 29.4 | 21.3 |
Mulching | 0.1 | 28.1 | 3.75 | 21.9 |
Use cover crop | 0.2 | 13.1 | 14.4 | 8.8 |
Use of grass strip | 0 | 10.6 | 0.63 | 9.4 |
Temporary migration | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.4 |
Engaged in off-farm business | 67.5 | 25.6 | 43.8 | 40 |
Sale of labor to another farm | 19.4 | 4.38 | 8.13 | 33.8 |
Growing food security crop | 76.9 | 21.9 | 39.4 | 38.1 |
Use of granary | 5 | 5.63 | 10.6 | 7.5 |
Use of silos/cribs | 3.75 | 0.63 | 1.88 | 0 |
Earlier land preparation | 59.4 | 8.13 | 43.9 | 15.6 |
Climate-smart planting basins | 17.5 | 28.8 | 6.25 | 33.1 |
Cultivate in wetland | 37 | 1.88 | 0 | 23 |
Rearing livestock | 58.1 | 20.6 | 45.6 | 26.9 |