The study shows that smallholder farmers in rural community in Sri Lanka seem to be producing perceptions about
climate change which are consistent with reality and they tend to take up adaptation strategies to cope up with
climate change
The famer’s decision to undertake any adaptation to climate change imply that the probability of
undertaking any adaptation increases with the size of the family, higher educated farmers, being a member in a
farmers’ group, access to formal loans, less distance to input market, access to information through electronic media
and growing beans as the main crop.