ASSESSING ADAPTATION MEASURES TO CLIMATE CHANGE APPLIED BY OUT-GROWERS FOR THE SUSTAINABLE PRO.....

The out-growers' adaptation measures to climate change for the sustainable production of sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.) in Tanzania were evaluated in this study. Because of the high volume of sugarcane output, out-growers at Kilombero Sugar Company Ltd, one of Tanzania's five sugarcane firms, comprised the research population. In the sugarcane community, data was gathered using key informant interviews and survey questionnaires (out-growers). A sample of 63 percent of the study population plus 30 key informants was used in this investigation. Out-growers' climate adaptation measures included land intensification (15.4 percent and 19.4 percent), use of field borders (49.3 percent and 53.3 percent), improved nutrient management (11.8 percent and 15.8 percent), crop rotation (7.6 percent and 11.6 percent), cover crops (5.6 percent and 9.6 percent), use of nitrogen (N) fertilisers at 50 and 100 kg N ha-1 (5.4 percent and 9.4 percent) in cane fields, reduced tillage (1.4 percent), and use of nitrogen (N) (2.1 percent and 6.1 percent ). Because the Likelihood Chi-square test for association was not significant (p = 0.676), the practises were found to be independent of the site and out-growers. Deforestation during land preparation (32.3 percent), industrial emissions during cane processing (12.9 percent), and overgrazing and farming near watershed regions (9.7%) in close proximity to the sugarcane industry were also found to be climatic non-adaptation practises. Because the Likelihood Chi-square test for association was significant (p = 0.002), each practise is site-specific and has no correlation with the same practise done at either site. Furthermore, the test revealed that the Likelihood Chi-square was significant (p = 0.051) for the identified additional practises that favour adaptation to climate change, indicating that if any practise is conducted at one site, the same practise and its magnitude is equally to be applied to the other site as a climate adaptation measure for sustainable sugarcane production by out-growers.

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