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Nigeria is an agrarian country with about 70% of the population engaging in crop farming. The vast majority of crop farmers have limited access to modern input and productive resources like pesticides and fertilizers. Crop farming is important to the livelihood of millions of people in Samaru Agricultural Zone. Crop production is influenced in different dimension and stages of crop growth by climatic factors. Temperature is the hotness and coolness of an area which is determinant of the rate at which crop progresses through morphological stages. Relative humidity is the amount of moisture in the air, which helps crops to grow, mature and flower. There are many causes of climate change such as variations in sun's intensity, ocean circulation and building of greenhouse gases (GHGs) such as carbon dioxide, nitrate oxides, chlorofluoro carbons (CFCs) and methane in the atmosphere. Climate change influence on crop farmer's productivity through the variability of climatic factors is global. Climate change poses a major challenge in diverse ecological problems like land degradation, drought, desertification and flood. Samaru Agricultural Zone is one of the four Agricultural Zone of Kaduna State in northern Nigeria. Crop farmers are faced with constraints of decrease in rainfall, cessation of rain, erratic rainfall distribution and changes of rivers.

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