CHARLAND FARMERS’ ADAPTATION STRATEGIES TOWARDS ADVERSE EFFECTS ON THEIR FOOD SECURITY UNDER BRAHMANBARIA DISTRICT

Abstract

Food security is a condition related to the supply of food, and individuals' access to it. The research was designed to investigate farmers’ food security status. The purpose of the study were to describe socio-economic profile of the farmers; to determine farmers’ extent of adaptation strategies towards adverse effects on their food security and to explore the contributing factors that influence farmers' adaptation strategies towards adverse effects on their food security. The study was purposively conducted at Nabinagar upazila under Brahmanbaria district. Validated and well-structured interview schedule (questionnaire) was used to collect data from 103 farmers during February 20 to March 20, 2021. Descriptive statistics, multiple regressions were used for analysis. The majority (66.99%) of the farmers had medium adaptation strategies compared to 8.74 percent had high and 24.27 percent had low adaptation strategies, respectively. Among ten selected characteristics of the farmers four characteristics, namely education, farming experience, professional training experience and agricultural extension media contact had significant positive contribution to their adaptation strategies towards adverse effects on their food security. The rest six characteristics namely age, family size, farm size, annual family income, organizational participation, food availability and food stock ability had no significant contribution to their adaptation strategies towards adverse effects on their food security. Based on the findings, it is recommended that respective authorities should implement and popularize farmers projects on a massive scale for achieving household food security status of the farmers.