For several years, agriculture has been the main sector, employing the majority of the populace in most developing countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) (Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa [AGRA], 2018). With the sector's role in poverty alleviation, it has contributed significantly to the socioeconomic and livelihood development of both male and female crop farmers in most rural communities in Ghana (Wrigley-Asante et al., 2017), albeit based on smallholding farms (Dzanku et al., 2021). Smallholder farmers in SSA largely depend on rainfall for food crop production for the sustenance of livelihood (Wrigley-Asante et al., 2017). Notwithstanding, global changes in climatic