**3.1 Socioeconomic characteristics of respondents**

## *3.1.1 Age of respondents*

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 activities in the area.
