*3.1.3 Household size*

*Agrometeorology*

climate change.

**3. Results and discussion**

*3.1.1 Age of respondents*

activities in the area.

*3.1.2 Gender of respondents*

*Source: Field Survey (2019)*

by including presumable typical areas or groups in the sample [17]. Due to nonavailability of population figures at ward level in the 1991 and 2006 census results, the copies of questionnaire were distributed uniformly among the ten [10] wards in the local government area. Each ward had 38 copies of questionnaire except for Bunkure ward which had an addition of 2 making 40 copies of questionnaire being

The data collected was subjected to simple descriptive statistics and tables, percentages and bar graphs was used to present the data in order to analyze the effects of socio-economic characteristics of respondents in relation to their awareness to

As indicated in **Table 1** majority (79.3%) of the sampled farmers are within the active age bracket of 31–50 years. This results suggest that, the farmers were still in their active/productive age and as such they can understand and experience the effects of climate change and adaptive strategies. The modal age bracket or group of farmers between 21–50 years according to [18] are considered to be active/productive age in farming activities. Participation of youth in agriculture in Nigeria is due to the high level of agricultural apathy by the youth as suggested in the studies on youths' participation in agriculture in Nigeria conducted by [19, 20]. This result corroborated the findings of [21] on adaptation strategies to climate change among grain farmers in Goronyo LGA of Sokoto State which showed that people within the age bracket of 31–50 years are active in farming

Gender issues in climate change have recently become important because of the social, spatial and economic contexts within which the change is perceived and responded by gender. The gender distribution of the respondents as shown in **Figure 2** indicated that 95% of the respondents are males while, female's farmers constituted only 5%. The result shows that majority of the farmers are males in

**Age Group (Years) Frequency Percentage** 18–30 42 12.10 31–40 120 34.6 41–50 155 44.7 51–60 20 5.8 >60 10 2.8 **Total 347 100**

the most populated ward as the local government headquarters.

**3.1 Socioeconomic characteristics of respondents**

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**Table 1.** *Age of respondents.*

The size of household as indicated in the **Table 2** shows that less than half (45%) of the respondents had a household size of between 6–10 persons while households with 11–15 persons constituted (33%). This implies that on the average, a typical household size is about 11 persons. This indicated that the greater the size of the household the greater the chances of being engaged in farming and more awareness on climate change effects.


**Table 2.** *Household size.*

**Figure 3.** *Level of education of the respondents. Source: Field survey (2019)*.
