Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
11th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AGRICULTURE, ANIMAL SCIENCE and RURAL DEVELOPMENT, Muş, Türkiye, 3 - 05 Mart 2023, ss.54-55
In the past, various climatic changes in different geographies have occurred and natural disasters and ecosystem deterioration took place due to these climatic changes. Turkey, which is a peninsula surrounded by seas on three sides, has a very different and diverse climate range. Considering its current geographic position and the various climate types it contains, it is among the countries that may be most affected by climate change caused by global warming. One of the most dangerous effects of climate change is drought. This is because drought is a natural disaster that does not appear suddenly and continues its effects for many years by showing slow development. The effects of drought is most evident in the agricultural sector. For this purpose, it has been investigated how and to what level the rural population in Çanakkale, who make their living from agriculture, is affected from climate change. Information was obtained from the farmer registration system of the Provincial Directorate of Agriculture and Forestry and the number of farmers to be surveyed was determined by using the "Simple Random Sampling Method". According to the survey results, 98.7% of the farmers have stated that they were aware of climate change that has occurred in the last decade and were trying to take some measures against it. Among these measures, 55.3% of the 76 farmers surveyed stated that they made a change in the product pattern, and 64.3% of them stated that the products they used to grow are no longer as profitable as it was previously. 23.7% of the respondents reduced the irrigated agricultural land and 73.8% of them stated that the reason for the change was due to problems in water resources. This study was carried out to understand how the rural population in Çanakkale is effected from climate change.