scholarly journals Attitude of the Rural Elite Farmers towards Extension Activities Performed by Personnel of Department of Agricultural Extension

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Arifullah ◽  
A Zahan ◽  
MM Rana ◽  
M Adil ◽  
Shamsunnaher Shamsunnaher
Keyword(s):  
Family Income ◽  
Agricultural Extension ◽  
Farm Size ◽  
Interview Schedule ◽  
Farm Work ◽  
Favourable Attitude ◽  
Organizational Participation ◽  
Rural Farmers ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Extension Personnel

The main purpose of the study was to ascertain the attitude of rural elite farmers towards extension activities performed by Upazilla Agricultural Extension personnel of DAE and to explore the relationship between the selected characteristics of the respondents and their extent of attitude towards those extension activities under reference. The study was conducted in two unions, namely Ratanpur and Rasullabad covering 5 villages of Nabinagar Upazilla under Brahmanbaria District. Data were collected from the rural elite farmers using a pre- tested interview schedule during 15th May 2009 to 10th June 2009. It was found that the highest proportion (43.14%) of the respondents had moderate favourable attitude compared to 33.33 percent having high favourable attitude and 23.53 percent less favourable attitude. Pearson Product Moment Correlation (r) test was used to ascertain the relationships between the concerned dependent and independent variables of the study. Findings revealed that education, farm size, time spent for farm work, organizational participation, extension contact and knowledge on agriculture of elite rural farmers showed positive significant relationship while age and annual family income did not show any such relationship with their attitude towards extension activities performed by Upazilla Agricultural Extension Personnel of DAE. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/agric.v12i1.19586 The Agriculturists 2014; 12(1) 96-102

scholarly journals Problems faced by the bean farmer in selected areas of Pabna district in Bangladesh

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-18
Author(s):  
Mohammad Zamshed Alam ◽  
Md Shariful Islam ◽  
Muhammad Humayun Kabir
Keyword(s):  
Correlation Analysis ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Farm Size ◽  
Interview Schedule ◽  
Significant Positive Relationship ◽  
Organizational Participation ◽  
Significant Negative Relationship

The major purposes of the study were to determine the extent of the problem faced by the farmers in bean cultivation and to explore the relationships between bean farmers’ selected characteristics with their problem faced. The study was conducted in four villages of two unions under Atghoria upazilla of Pabna District. Data were collected from a random sample of 106 bean farmers by using an interview schedule during 15 Dec, 2017 to 15 Jan, 2018. The highest proportion (71.70 percent) of the farmers faced medium overall problem in bean production, while 16.04 percent faced high and 12.26 percent faced low problem. Problem faced in non-availability of pesticides ranked 1st and this was followed by non-availability of fertilizers, lack of capital so on and least one lack of irrigation in bean cultivation ranked 28th. Correlation analysis indicated that education, training exposure, organizational participation, extension media contact and farmers’ knowledge had significant negative relationship with their problem faced. Age had significant positive relationship with their problem faced while family members, farm size, annual family income, bean cultivation area, and credit received by the farmers had no significant relationship with their problem faced. Overwhelming (87.74) majority of bean farmers faced medium to high problems therefore, it may be said that problem faced by the farmers in bean cultivation is a serious issue to be addressed to maximize bean production.Res. Agric., Livest. Fish.5(1): 11-18, April 2018

scholarly journals Use of Knowledge System in the Rural Community in Improving Livelihood Status of the Farmers under RDRS

1970 ◽  
pp. 167-172
Author(s):  
MS Islam ◽  
ME Uddin ◽  
MU Rashid
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
Knowledge System ◽  
Farm Size ◽  
Annual Income ◽  
Interview Schedule ◽  
Organizational Participation ◽  
Sample Data ◽  
Use Of Knowledge ◽  
The Relationship

The study was focused to determine the extent of use of knowledge system in improving livelihood status of the farmers. The relationship between selected characteristics of the farmers and extent of use of knowledge system in improving their livelihood status was also explored. The study was conducted in Raipur Union of Thakurgaon Sadar Upazila under Thakurgaon District. The population of the study was 146 and seventy percent of the population was selected at random and as such 101 farmers were selected as sample. Data were collected through interview schedule by the researcher himself during 07 February to 28 March 2004. The majority (69 percent) of the respondents possessed medium extent of knowledge while 17 percent low and 14 percent possessed high extent of knowledge on livelihood. Out of thirteen selected characteristics of the respondents level of literacy, farm size, and annual income, farming and living expenditure, innovativeness, communication exposure, cosmopoliteness, organizational participation, aspiration and fatalism had positive significant relationship with the extent of use of knowledge system in improving livelihood status. Key words: Information system, livelihood status, farmers. DOI = 10.3329/jard.v5i1.1474 J Agric Rural Dev 5(1&2), 167-172, June 2007

scholarly journals Farmers’ awareness regarding deforestation at Jalma union of Batiaghata upazila under Khulna district of Bangladesh

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-202
Author(s):  
Shipra Mondol ◽  
Archona Mollick ◽  
Mohammad Bashir Ahmed ◽  
Md Matiul Islam
Keyword(s):  
Family Income ◽  
Farm Size ◽  
Interview Schedule ◽  
Educational Qualification ◽  
Organizational Participation ◽  
Average Temperature ◽  
Cultural Integrity ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
The People ◽  
The Village

Deforestation causes environmental degradation. Awareness of the people might have influence on reduction of deforestation. The main purposes of the study were to determine the farmers’ awareness regarding deforestation and to explore relationship between the selected characteristics of the farmers and their awareness. The study was conducted to only one village namely Raingamari (The project village of Khulna University) of Jalma union under Batiaghata upazila of Khulna district. Data were collected from 53 family heads of the village on their 10 selected characteristics such as age, educational qualification, farming experience, family size, farm size, family income, organizational participation, cosmopoliteness, extension media contact, training exposure. Data were also collected on farmers’ awareness regarding deforestation. Data were collected from the respondents during April to July 2017 through personal interview using a pretested interview schedule. Most of the respondents were highly aware of deforestation. The respondents showed highest level of awareness regarding “deforestation causes greenhouse effect which consequently increase the average temperature of the earth” while they were less aware regarding “deforestation threatens the livelihoods and cultural integrity of people that depend on forest”. Among the 10 selected characteristics of the respondents, educational qualification, organizational participation, extension media contact showed positive significant relationships with their awareness regarding deforestation while only the annual income had the negative significant relationship with their awareness regarding deforestation. Res. Agric., Livest. Fish.6(2): 193-202, August 2019

scholarly journals Use of Cell Phone in Receiving Agricultural Information by the Farmers

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Sk. Md. Nur-E-Alam ◽  
Md. Sekender Ali ◽  
M. Zahidul Haque
Keyword(s):  
Cell Phone ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Farm Size ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Organizational Participation ◽  
Significant Negative Relationship ◽  
Phone User ◽  
The Relationship

Cell phone is an easy, fast and convenient device for communication. The main purpose of the study was to determine the extent of use of Cell Phone in receiving agricultural information and to explore the relationship between the selected characteristics of the farmers in using Cell Phone for receiving agricultural information. Data were obtained from 97 Cell Phone user farmers in selected village named Chorjamalpur of Boyra union under Singair upazila of Manikganj through face-to-face interview. Appropriate scales were developed in order to measure the concerned variables. Pearson Product Moment Correlation test was used to ascertain the relationship between each of the selected characteristics of the farmers with their use of Cell Phone for receiving agricultural information. The finding shows that 89.7 percent of the respondents had no use to low use of Cell Phone for receiving agricultural information and 10.3 percent of the respondents had medium use to high use of Cell Phone for receiving agricultural information. The finding clearly indicates the ignorance of the respondents about the use of Cell Phone for receiving agricultural information. Among 11 selected characteristics of the farmers, eight characteristics namely, education, land possession, effective farm size, annual family income, agricultural training exposure, organizational participation, innovativeness, cosmopoliteness showed significant and positive relationship with their use of Cell Phone. Problem confrontation of the farmers in using Cell Phone showed significant negative relationship with their use of Cell Phone for receiving agricultural information. But age of the farmers and farming experience of the farmers showed non significant relationship with the use of Cell Phone by the farmers.

scholarly journals Farmers’ Perception of Environmental Degradation Due to Use of Pesticides

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-18
Author(s):  
S Akter ◽  
MA Miah ◽  
MZ Rhaman ◽  
MS Hossen ◽  
MA Baten
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Media Exposure ◽  
Environmental Knowledge ◽  
Farm Size ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Organizational Participation ◽  
High Knowledge ◽  
Independent Variable ◽  
The Relationship

The study was conducted mainly to have an understanding about the farmers’ perception of environmental degradation due to use of pesticides. Data for the study were collected by personal interviewing from 69 randomly selected farmers of Kabaria kanda village of sadar upazila of Mymensingh district during the period of 01 November to 15 November, 2012. Pearson’s product moment correlation co-efficient were computed to examine the relationship between the concerned variables. Perception on environmental degradation was reflected more in the young (30.4 percent) to middle age (42 percent) group compared to old age group. Majority (72.5 percent) of the farmers in the study area were found to have no organizational participation. The highest proportion (73.9 percent) of the respondents fell in the moderate knowledge category while none fell in less knowledge and 26.1 percent in the high knowledge category respectively. Only 1.4 percent of the farmers had moderately perception on environmental knowledge as compared to 98.6 percent favorable perception. Out of eight independent variables, five of them, i.e. years of schooling, farm size, annual family income, media exposure and knowledge on the use of agro-chemicals had positive relationships with their perception of environmental degradation due use of pesticides. Only three independent variable i.e. age, household size and organizational participation had no relationship with their perception of environmental degradation due use of pesticides.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jesnr.v6i2.22079 J. Environ. Sci. & Natural Resources, 6(2): 13-18 2013

scholarly journals Constraints to livelihood diversification of rural farmers in selected areas of Patuakhali district

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 355-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
PK Mittra ◽  
MGR Akanda
Keyword(s):  
Random Sampling ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Family Education ◽  
Livelihood Diversification ◽  
Annual Income ◽  
Interview Schedule ◽  
Organizational Participation ◽  
Rural Farmers ◽  
Medium Level

The present study was aimed at determining the constraints confronted by the farmers in livelihood diversification. The purposes of this study were to determine the extent and nature of livelihood diversification of the farmers and also to explore relationships of 13 selected characteristics of the farmers with their livelihood diversification. There were a total of 1270 farmers in the 5 villages constituted the population of the study, out of which 10 percent of the total farmers were selected through simple random sampling technique. This gave a sample size of 127 such farmers. Data were collected by the researcher himself with the help of pre-tested interview schedule during 15 February 2013 to 30 March, 2013. The livelihood diversification scores of the respondents ranged from 0.22 to 0.79 with an average of 0.41. It is seen that more than half of the farmers 53.5% had medium level of livelihood diversification compared to 19.7 percent of them having low livelihood diversification and 26.8 percent had high livelihood. Out of 13 selected characteristics of the farmers, seven of those viz. education, family education, income generating experience, household annual income, communication exposure, organizational participation and attitude towards livelihood diversification had positive significant relationship with livelihood diversification. Bangladesh J. Agril. Res. 44(2): 355-365, June 2019

scholarly journals Awareness of fishermen for managing fish sanctuary in some selected areas of Jamalpur District in Bangladesh

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 339-345
Author(s):  
L Akter ◽  
MJ Hoque ◽  
MA Kashem ◽  
TD Nath
Keyword(s):  
Family Income ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
The Other ◽  
Farm Size ◽  
Communication Media ◽  
Extension Service ◽  
Interview Schedule ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
Agricultural Knowledge

The purposes of the study were to determine the extent of awareness of the fishermen in managing fish sanctuary and to find out the relationships between the extent of awareness of the fishermen and their selected characteristics. Data were collected from 90 purposively selected fishermen (out of 105) from Ghosherpara Union of Melandah Upazila Under Jamalpur District. A pre-tested and structured interview schedule was used to collect data from the fishermen during the period of 19 March to 30 March, 2013. The findings indicated that majority of the respondents (74.5 percent) had medium awareness and 25.5 percent having high awareness. Out of ten selected characteristics, the fishermen’s age, level of education, fish culture experience, communication exposure and agricultural knowledge on fish sanctuary showed significant positive relationships with their extent of awareness in managing fish sanctuary. On the other hand, household size, farm size, annual family income, training exposure and credit received had no significant relationships with their extent of awareness in managing fish sanctuary. So, to increase awareness of the fishermen in managing sanctuary, proper guidance and strengthening fisheries extension service should be done by fisheries extension workers/ upazila fisheries officer through arranging different activities including training, field visit or using different communication media etc.Progressive Agriculture 27 (3): 339-345, 2016

scholarly journals Impact of Grameen Bank micro credit on change in livelihood status of women beneficiaries

1970 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 381-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Kuhinur ◽  
M Rokonuzzaman
Keyword(s):  
Family Income ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Farm Size ◽  
Grameen Bank ◽  
Organizational Participation ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
Average Change ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Status Of Women ◽  
Micro Credit

Grameen Bank (GB) is one of the largest NGO working with the socio-economic upliftment of the poor section, specially women of the society. The main focus on the present study is to determine change in livelihood status of women beneficiaries of GB in twenty selected centers of Jaforgonj north of Debidwar branch under Comilla district; and to identify the existing problems faced by GB participants. Data were collected from 100 randomly selected sample (15% of population), out of population size 663 of GB beneficiaries. Data indicated that change in livelihood status scores of the respondents varied from 4 to 24. The average change in livelihood status score was 13.94. The largest proportion (62 percent) of women belonged to medium, compared to 25 percent and 13 percent belong to low and high change in livelihood status categories respectively. Results of t-test on change of livelihood status in three dimensions namely ‘change of farm and house hold materials', ‘change of housing, health and sanitation' and ‘change of annual family income' in terms of ‘before' and ‘after' involvement were found highly significant. Out of 11 selected characteristics, education, annual income, credit availability, communication with GB employee and staff and attitude towards micro-credit program of GB were positively significant and only age and non-localite behaviour were negatively significant with dependent variable of change in livelihood status. Family size, farm size, organizational participation and attitude towards community did not show any significant relationship with change in livelihood status. Problems faced by beneficiaries in respect of ‘lack of sufficient amount of credit' was the most serious problems, credit disbursement delayed was the second problem and the third problem was ‘belief on dogmatism and fatalism' with problem index 199 among the six existing problems. Keywords: Grameen Bank; Micro credit; Livelihood status;  Women beneficiaries DOI: 10.3329/jbau.v7i2.4750 J. Bangladesh Agril. Univ. 7(2): 381-386, 2009

scholarly journals Identification, Prevalence and Use of Medicinal Plants in Fulbaria Upazila of Mymensingh District

2010 ◽  
pp. 90-95
Author(s):  
MU Rashid ◽  
MS Eakram
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Correlation Analysis ◽  
Medicinal Plant ◽  
Farm Size ◽  
Ocimum Sanctum ◽  
Vitex Negundo ◽  
Interview Schedule ◽  
Organizational Participation ◽  
Prevalent Species ◽  
Blumea Lacera

A study was carried out in Fulbaria Upazila under Mymensingh district covering 70 homesteads from three unions namely, Kaladaha, Enayetpur and Achim-patuli. Data were collected using interview schedule during 23 February to 10 April 2004. To identify the medicinal plants and their uses, a total of 30 medicinal plant species were recorded from the study area. The most prevalent species were Bashok (Adhatoda vasica), Neem (Azadirachta indica), Nishinda (Vitex negundo), Akonda (Calotropic gigantea) Pitraj (Amoora rohituka), Shialmutra (Blumea lacera), Apang (Achyranthes aspera) and Tulsi (Ocimum sanctum). The highest proportion (48.57%) of the respondents reported about moderate use while 31.43 and 20.0% opined high and low use of medicinal plants, respectively. Correlation analysis revealed that among the selected characteristics of the farmers such as age, education, farm size, organizational participation, benefits received from medicinal plants, environmental awareness and knowledge about medicinal plants had significant relationship with the use of medicinal plants.

scholarly journals Farmers Awareness on Environmental Degradation used by Modern Agricultural Technologies in a Selected Area of Meherpur District

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 289-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
MT Islam ◽  
MS Hossen ◽  
R Khatun
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Farm Size ◽  
Agricultural Technologies ◽  
Organizational Participation ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
Academic Qualification ◽  
High Knowledge

The main aim of the study was to determine the farmer’s awareness on environmental degradation used by modern agricultural technologies by exploring the relationships between ten selected characteristics of the farmers and their awareness. Eighty farmers of the selected village Ashrafpur under of Meherpur district constituted the sample of the study. Data were collected by interviewing the farmers using personal interview schedule during the period from August to September, 2013. Among these eighty respondents 37.5% had low, 51.25% respondents had medium and only 11.25% of the respondent had high knowledge about modern agricultural technologies. While 35% respondents had low, 55% respondents had medium and only 10 % had high knowledge about environmental degradation. Among the respondents 25% had poor, 61.25% respondents had medium and only 13.75% had high awareness about environmental degradation caused by the use of modern agricultural technologies. Out of ten independent variables, six of them, that is academic qualification, organizational participation, communication exposure, innovativeness, knowledge about the use of modern agricultural technologies and knowledge about environmental degradation had positive significant relationships with their awareness on environmental degradation caused by the use of modern agricultural technologies . Three independent variable i.e. family size, farm size, and family income had no significant relationship and only age had negative significant relationship with their awareness on environmental degradation used by modern agricultural technologies.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jesnr.v7i1.22186 J. Environ. Sci. & Natural Resources, 7(1): 289-294 2014

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