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Versatility of Farmers in Coping Up With Climate Change Prior To Rice Production in Solana Cagayan

This document discusses a study on the versatility of farmers in Solana, Cagayan, Philippines in coping with climate change prior to rice production. It introduces that rice is an important crop for the Philippines' food supply and economy. However, climate change poses challenges for farmers and agricultural production. The province of Cagayan, where the study was conducted, experiences frequent typhoons that damage rice farms. The study aims to understand the farmers' practices in adapting to and coping with the effects of climate change in order to inform strategies to sustain rice production despite these impacts.

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Versatility of Farmers in Coping Up With Climate Change Prior To Rice Production in Solana Cagayan

This document discusses a study on the versatility of farmers in Solana, Cagayan, Philippines in coping with climate change prior to rice production. It introduces that rice is an important crop for the Philippines' food supply and economy. However, climate change poses challenges for farmers and agricultural production. The province of Cagayan, where the study was conducted, experiences frequent typhoons that damage rice farms. The study aims to understand the farmers' practices in adapting to and coping with the effects of climate change in order to inform strategies to sustain rice production despite these impacts.

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Versatility of Farmers in Coping up with Climate Change prior to Rice Production

in Solana Cagayan

Introduction

Rice is one of the major agricultural crops here in the Philippines. Rice production
is considered as extremely important aspect to the food supply in the country and to the
country’s economy. According to the 2009 Crop Production Statistics, the Philippines is
the 9th largest rice producer in the world, accounting for 2.8% of global rice production.
Farmers work and tire themselves out in order to be able to produce rice. And through
their hard work, we are able to sustain our rice supply. But aside from the hours of planting
and harvesting, another factor that contributes to the struggles of farmers is climate
change.

Climate change is something which is inevitable in this world right now. Day by day
it gets harder to adapt to changing patterns in our weather. Climate change bring a huge
deal to our agriculture, specifically to the farmers and crops.

Despite technological advances, such as improved varieties, genetically modified


organisms, and irrigation systems, weather is still a key factor in agricultural productivity,
as well as soil properties and natural communities. The effect of climate on agriculture is
related to variabilities in local climates rather than in global climate patterns (Naylor, 2008).

The impact of climate change has been more present to developing countries
which rely mostly on agriculture due to geographic exposure that leads to low production
and weak resilience to such extreme events due to low income resulting to poor adaptation
(Dait, 2015). Philippines is known for its tropical weather which is appropriate in crop
production, but Philippines is also one of the countries which are often passed by typhoons
and mostly experience drought due to continuous hot climate, which deals a lot damage
to our agriculture.

Climate change has the potential to disrupt crop productivity, and in turn affect
domestic agricultural production, consumption, and food security. Moreover, the global
impact of climate change could stimulate changes in international and domestic
commodity prices, ultimately having negative effects on both Philippine agriculture and the
country’s overall economy (Rosegrant, 2016).

The province of Cagayan in the Philippines is located along the North Eastern coast of
the Pacific Ocean where typhoons are frequently formed due to the rising water surface
heat. In fact, the province topped the 20 provinces at risk to typhoons in the country. The
province has been highly exposed to extreme weather disturbances due to numerous
typhoons that come across the place annually creating a large quantity of destruction to
economic life such as rice farming, a primary source of income of farmers in the locality,
and the like (Clausen et al., 2007). The province has been recently struck by one of the
strongest catastrophe to ever hit the country causing a major damage to agriculture
amounting to P5.7 Billion. Thus, this catastrophe had created an economic fall down in
the locality (Dullana, 2016).

Developing agricultural adaptation and growth strategies is of utmost importance,


not only to maintain domestic agricultural production, but also to underpin broader
economic growth and structural transformation. Sustaining agricultural production growth
to help achieve inclusive growth and poverty reduction is a key goal for the Philippine
government (Perez, 2016). Farmers need to be able to cope up with climate change by
forming strategies and ways to counterpart the effects of climate change in crop
production.

Therefore, this study was conducted in order to bring light to the ability of farmers,
particularly the farmers of Solana, Cagayan, to adapt to climate change and their practices
in coping up to the aftermath of climate change. This study aimed to give knowledge to
farmers, in general, regarding the strategies they will be needing in coping up with the
effects of climate change.

Definition of Terms

The following key terminologies that were used in this study were defined
operationally.

Climate Change. This refers to the sudden change in weather patterns and
conditions.
Rice Production. This refers to the amount or the quantity of rice that is being
produced.
Sustainable Development. This refers to the organizing principle for meeting
human development goals while at the same time sustaining the ability of natural systems
to provide the natural resources and ecosystem services upon which the economy and
society depends.
Versatility. This term refers to the ability to adapt in different kinds of situations.

Scope and Delimitation

This study was conducted in order to gain knowledge on the strategies of farmers
in adapting to climate change and their ways of coping up with the effects of climate
change. This study was delimited only to the farmers of Solana, Cagayan.

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