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| Adaptation on Climate Change Impact on Variability of Rainfall to Banana Farming in Zanzibar |
Thuwaiba Kassim Haji, Rashid Juma Rashid, Abdalla Ibrahim Ali
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Abstract:
Banana is very popular crop in the world but mostly considered as tropical crop due the uniform warm and rainy climate throughout the year. The study was conducted at Makunduchi, Kinyasini and Kizimbani from three different regions of Zanzibar Island... Survey method was employed to examine climate change on rainfall impacts and adaptation measures to banana farmers in the selected sites. The SPSS computer program was used to obtain descriptive statistics of surveyed data and Microsoft excel was used to analyze climate data using one sample t-test method. The result shows that banana farming suffer from insufficient rainfall and high dry spells as annual monthly rainfall is (p- value 0.03948) which means that there is a significant difference from the base line of 60 mm per month. It is concluded that adaptation to reduce rainfall impacts is necessary to improve production, as observed at Makunduchi where technical and institutional changes maintained to manage a good farming practice especially irrigation enabled farmers to increase production, while inadequate water supply is unable to manage sustainable increased banana production mostly at Kinyasini and Kizimbani. Overall water infrastructure should be improved to promote high production of banana so as to maintain livelihood and enough food supply.
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