| dc.description.abstract | Climate variability is no longer a distant worry Kenya and this has a great influence
on agriculture in general, and on maize production in particular. Current
understanding on the status of the impacts of climate variability on maize production
will contribute immensely to climate risk management, vulnerability reduction and
enhancement of food production hence food security under a changing climate
regime. It is in this regard that this study investigated the effects of climate
variability on maize yields in Siaya County, whose inhabitants rely on maize as their
staple food crop.
The data used in this study was for a period of 22years and consists both
meteorological and crop data. Meteorological data included monthly rainfall totals,
monthly maximum and minimum temperatures and monthly maximum and
minimum relative humidity totals for Siaya stations. Crop data consisted of seasonal
yield data expressed inproductivity per unit area.
Data used were first subjected to homogeneity tests; correlation analysis and finally
to multiple and simple linear regression .Aregression rpodel was obtained that shows
the relationship between the climatic parameters and the total yields.
This model can be used to guide farmers on time of planting and timing of other
agricultural practices and the expected yields given the meteorological forecast | en_US |
