The Impact of Climate Change on Maize Yield and Farmers' Adaptation Options: Evidence from Three Provinces of China

Jiliang Ma and Weisheng Kong

Asian Agricultural Research, 2015, vol. 07, issue 03, 5

Abstract: This paper tries to answer the question that whether farmers can adjust better to climate change in the short-term than in long-term by using panel data models and long difference models respectively. We find that short term weather shocks are less detrimental to maize yield than the long-term climate changes, which can be seen as the evidences of adaptations. For adaptation options, we find farmers choose to decrease maize planting area or enlarge the irrigation inputs to cope with the increase of extreme heat days; when there are more precipitations, farmers will increase the input of fertilizer or labor.

Keywords: Agribusiness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.206681

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