Climate change is individual of the world's most important environmental issues hurting farming and livestock result systems. Increasing temperatures cause heat stress in bovine animals, negatively moving milk production, reproduction, and the fitness of animals. The purpose concerning this study is to assess animals raised on a farm farmers' ideas and adaptive responses to surroundings change in the Koinadugu District, northern Sierra Leone. A total of 126 animals raised on a farm farmers were chosen from four chiefdoms. A wheeled vehicle for hauling-structured inquiry was used to gather the information. The of or in the atmosphere time order data was used to assess the hotness and precipitation records of the precinct. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 23.0 and excel were used to resolve the data. The result of the study shows that the laborers are aware of climate change by essential clues such as an increase in moisture (82.5%), increasing heat waves (77.0%), and decreased precipitation (54.0%). The shortages of animal feed (x¯ = 4.14), water scarcity (x¯ = 4.10), greater veterinary care expenditures (x¯ = 4.25), and increase in the spread of afflictions (x¯= 3.14) are some of the impacts of climate change on bovine animals production. The naturalization strategies employed apiece farmers contain a reduction of livestock populace (87.3%), vaccination of mammals (95.2%), migration along with mammals during antagonistic climatic conditions (75.4%), and supplying of salt and urea sweet liquid block (70.6%). The factors impeding the peasant's climate change agreement include inadequate approach to veterinary services, incompetent forage and pasture, shortage of water resources, a lack of capital, incompetent information about climate change, and incompetent infrastructure. Therefore, the administration should pursue powerful policies to help animals raised on a farm farmers adjust to mood change in the long run.
Author(s) Details:
Abdul Rahman Sesay,
Department
of Animal Science, Njala Campus, Njala University, Sierra Leone.
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