Adaptation measures types | Frequency* | Percent % | |
Technological | Application of fertilizers | 159 | 80.7 |
Planting fast maturing varieties | 103 | 52.3 | |
Planting drought tolerant varieties | 58 | 29.4 | |
Drip irrigation agriculture | 17 | 8.6 | |
Water harvesting technologies | 91 | 46.2 | |
Agronomic Measures | Early planting | 183 | 92.9 |
Mulching | 33 | 16.8 | |
Terracing | 180 | 91.4 | |
Contour ploughing | 147 | 74.6 | |
Fallowing | 12 | 6.1 | |
Shifting cultivation | 8 | 4.1 | |
Other measures | Migration | 8 | 4.1 |
Changing planting dates | 171 | 86.8 | |
Borrowing | 79 | 40.1 | |
Stagger planting | 28 | 14.2 | |
Off farm activities | 96 | 48.7 |