Impact of Climate Change in Rural Agriculture: A Case Study of Bigutar Village, Okhaldhunga, Nepal
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Department of Rural Development
Abstract
Nepal is agriculture country and most of its economy is based on agriculture. Climate change
is one of the major issue in agriculture. The change in the climatic parameters greatly affects
the agricultural production. The climate change has changed the livelihood of people and
especially the rural people who primarily depend on agriculture. This research aims to explore
the knowledge of climate change of the people of Bigutar village, Okhaldhunga, Nepal and the
effects of climate change in agriculture in recent decade. It also aims to explore the knowledge
of climate change adaptation techniques in agriculture and the local use of techniques and the
benefits they get from the adaptations techniques.
This research is based on exploratory as well as descriptive research design. The study tried to
explore and tried to cover all the aspects of the climate change in agriculture and the results of
adaptations techniques. The research describes the profile of the respondents like age group,
caste and their knowledge on climate change. Altogether, 50 respondents were selected in such
a way that all of them are farmers and permanent residence of Bigutar village since their birth.
This study used both primary and secondary data for the analysis. The primary data were
collected from the field and the primary data includes the knowledge of farmers towards
climate change, their perceptions towards the climate change, effect of climate change in
agriculture including for individual crops, climate change adaptations techniques used by
farmers and the results of the techniques. The secondary data are location description, climate
data (rainfall and temperature), the census data for total populations and different caste and the
data of agriculture production of the district.
Finally, the study recommends for training to the farmer on the different farming system based
in adaptations techniques and concludes with a suggestion for introducing commercial farming
in the community. Also, government needs to give attention on adaptation measures to climate
change. The farmers are found to be following indigenous agriculture system with some
modern agriculture methods.