Agricultural Extension Strategies for Effective Mitigation against the Effects of Climate Change

摘要: Climate change, rapid population growth and stiff competition for available resources threaten human animal survival. Hazardous climate-change impacts include environmental pollution, global warming, rising sea level ocean salinity, changing rainfall patterns, water scarcity, disease pest epidemics, droughts, floods, decreasing land productivity. These put intense pressure on leaders followers to improve climate change adaptation disaster- preparedness by proactively managing prudently using research-based technologies. Effective extension mitigation strategies sustainable use; agroforestry; enterprise diversification; restoring denuded degraded through reseeding crop rotation, fertilizer manure application, reduced-till no-till cropping, contour farming, terracing, mixed farming. Also: irrigation; fish farming; growing drought-resistant, early maturing crops; improving pasture fodder, livestock feed intake efficiency digestibility; residues as feed; safe chemical industrial waste disposal. Others are use of model services; raising staff-farmer ratio group methods; incorporating education in school curricula; lobbying good policies professional associations. Strategies also resource conservation; harvesting; establishing hedges; planting trees shade, beautification, windbreaks, fruits, timber farms, homesteads, along the roads; multiplying desirable breeds plant species; energy-saving biological control technologies; funding tree nurseries community change. Nursery sowing sorghum Finger millet transplanting when rains begin optimizes moisture.