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Item JOB PERFORMANCE OF SUB ASSISTANT AGRICULTURE OFFICERS (SAAOs) OF DINAJPUR DISTRICT IN BANGLADESH(DEPT. OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION & INFORMATION SYSTEM, 2011-07) RAIHAN, MD. ZULFIKER ALIItem CONSTRAINTS FACED BY THE FARMERS IN LOTKON CULTIVATION(DEPT. OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION & INFORMATION SYSTEM, 2011) HASAN, A F. M. MAHABUBULThe main focus of the present study was to determine the constraints faced by the farmers in lotkon cultivation and to explore the relationships between the constraints faced by the farmers and their selected characteristics. The study was conducted at Joynogar village of Joynogar union and Shristighor village of Josar union as the typical area for lotkon cultivation of Shibpur Upazilla under Narsingdi District. Data were collected from proportionately randomly selected 100 lotkon farmers from an update list of 997 lotkon farmers of the study area which was prepared with the help of Sub-Assistant Agricultural Officers of that area. The researcher himself collected data through personal contact with a well structured pretested interview schedule during the period from Otto 30 September, 2012. The study revealed that highest proportion (65 percent) of the respondents faced medium constraints in lotkon cultivation, while 21 percent and 14 percent of the respondents faced high and low constraints respectively. Pearson's Product Moment Correlation co-efficient (r) was computed to explore the relationships between the constraints faced by the farmers in lotkon cultivation and their each of twelve selected characteristics. The correlation analysis indicated that education, extension media contact, training exposure, innovativeness, attitude towards lotkon cultivation and knowledge on lotkon cultivation had significant negative relationships with the constraints faced by the farmers in lotkon cultivation. Age, lotkon farm size, land possession, number of lotkon trees, annual family income and annual income from lotkon had non-significant relationships with the problems in lotkon cultivation. The Constraint Faced Index (CFI) indicated that the farmers faced highest problem in "lower price in the field than the urban market" followed by "lowcr germination of female plant" and "lack of necessary technical advice from the extension workers"Item PROBLEM FACED BY TRADERS FOR VEGETABLE MARKETING IN DHAKA CITY(DEPT. OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION & INFORMATION SYSTEM, 2011) MD.MONIRUZZAMANThe purpose of this study was to assess the extent of problems faced by the vegetable trader in Dhaka city and to explore the association between the extent of problems faced by the vegetable traders and their selected characteristics. The selected characteristics were age, education, types of shop, Nature of trading, income from vegetable business, vegetable marketing knowledge, trading experience, daily purchase of vegetable, capital investment in vegetable business. Data were gathered from 150 vegetable trader of Mirpur.Farmgate and Karwanbazar in Dhaka city by using a structured interview schedule. For harmonious representation from each area 8 percent sample were drawn following stratified random sampling method. Appropriate scales were formulated in order to assess the concerned variables. SPSS software was used to probe the data and Chi-Square was applied to examine the relationship among the variables. The findings revealed that the highest proportion of the trader 68.7 percent faced medium problem, while 23.3.5 percent faced high problem and 8 percent of low problem for vegetable marketing. Hence, overwhelming majority 92 percent of the respondents faced medium to high problem for vegetable marketing. The statistical analysis exposed Nature of trading; capital investment in vegetable business had significant association, while problem faced by the vegetable trader had not significant association with the age, education, types of shop, income from vegetable business, vegetable marketing knowledge, trading experience and daily purchase of vegetable.Item HOMESTEAD FARMING KNOWLEDGE OF GARO WOMEN FARMERS(DEPT. OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION & INFORMATION SYSTEM, 2011) MAMUN, MD. ABDULLAH ALThe study was conducted in Arankhola union of Modhupur upazila under Tangail district. Garo women farmers of Modhupur upazila under Tangail district constituted the population of the study. An update list of 418 Garo women thrmers who were related to homestead farming activities was prepared with the help of Sub-Assistaifi Agricultural Officer of these localities. Around one forth (1/4) of the populations were randomly selected as the sample of the study by using random sampling method. Thus, 105 Gary women farmers constituted the sample of the study. A well structured inten'iew schedule was developed based on objectives of the study for collecting information. The researcher himself collected data through personal contact. AboLa half (49.52 percent) of the respondents fell in low knowledge category Followed by very low knowledge (27.62 percent) and medium knowledge (22.86 percent) category in homestead thnning knowledge. Level of education. homestead farm size, annual family income, organizational participation, cosmopoliteness, contact with extension agent and exposure to mass media agricultural programs had significant positive relationships with homestead farming knowledge of Gum women farmers. Age of the Garo women thrmers had significant negative relationship with homestead farming knowledge. Family size and average thmily education had positive but no significant relationships with the homestead Ihrming knowledge of Gait women farmers.Item USE OF IMPROVED PRACTICES BY THE FARMERS IN LITCHI CULTIVATION(DEPT. OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION & INFORMATION SYSTEM, 2011) SIKDER, SUDERSONThe main purpose of the study was to determine the extent of use of improved practices in litchi cultivation by the farmers and to explore its relationship with selected characteristics of the farmers. Three villages of Magura Sadar Upazilla namely Ichakada, Hazrapur and Mithapur were selected as lacale of the study. Out of515 farmers of these three villages 103 (20 percent) farmers were randomly selected as the sample for this study. Data were collected from the selected farmers through interview by using an interview schedule during July 1 to August 09, 2012.Use of improved practices in litchi cultivation by the farmers was ascertained through four point rating scale. Coefficient of correlation was used in order to analyze data in fulfilling the objectives. The highest proportion (69.90 percent) of the farmers had medium use while 22.34 percent had low use and only 7.76 percent had high use of improved practices. Extension contact, agricultural knowledge, innovativeness and farming experience had positive relationship with their use of improved practices in litchi cultivation, while age, education, litchi cultivation area and annual income had no significant relationship with their use of improved practices. The major problems in litchi cultivation were packaging problem, insect attack, Lack of extension service, Lack of credit, Lack of skilled labors, Problems of irrigation in dry season, High price of fertilizer, Disease infestation, Lack of improved seedling.Item PROBLEMS CONFRONTED BY UPAZILA LEVEL EXTENSION PERSONNEL IN RECEIVING AND DISSEMINATING TECHNOLOGICAL INFORMATION(DEPT. OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION & INFORMATION SYSTEM, 2011) HOSSAIN, ARAFATThe objective of this study was to determine the relationship between selected characteristics of the upazila level extension personnel and problem confronted by them in receiving and disseminating technological information. Extension personnel at upazila level all over Bangladesh were assumed to be the population of the study. There were 1449 upazila level agricultural officers in Bangladesh which constituted the population of the study. Preliminary mailed questionnaire were sent to 363 upazila level officers taking 25% of the population. But only 112 upazila level agricultural officers returned the questionnaire in time. So, these 112 upazila level agricultural officers constitute the final sample of the study. Data collection was started in January and completed in March, 2012. Considering problems confronted by upazila level extension personnel in receiving and disseminating technological information, majority population (71.43 percent) of the upazila level agricultural officers belong to the group of medium level problem confrontation followed by 16.96 percent in high problem and 11.61 percent in low problem confrontation. Training exposure, job performance and use of communication media of the upazila level agricultural officers had significant negative relationship with their problems confrontation in receiving and disseminating technological information.Item TRAINING NEEDS OF FARMERS ON POTATO CULTIVATION AT PARBOTIPUR VILLAGE IN RANG PUR DISTRICT(DEPT. OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION & INFORMATION SYSTEM, 2011) HOSSAIN, MD. RAJIBThe study was conducted in Rangpur Pouroshava under Sadar upazila of Rangpur District to study the training needs of farmers on potato cultivation. Parbotipur village of Rangpur Pouroshava in Sadar upazila of Rangpur District selected purposively as the locale of the study. Potato growers of this selected village constituted the population of the study. An updated list of 417 farmers from the selected village was prepared with the help of Sub-Assistant Agriculture Officer of this locality. Around 25% of the populations were randomly selected as the sample of the study by using random sampling method. Thus, 104 potato growers constituted the sample of the study. A well structured interview schedule was developed based on objectives of the study for collecting information. The researcher himself collected data through personal contact. Among the respondents, in training needs of farmers on potato cultivation the highest 62.50 percent belongs to high level training needs group followed by 20.19 percent in medium level training need and 17.31 percent in low level training need group. Age and problems of potato farmers had significant positive relationships with their training needs on potato cultivation but level of education and farm size had significant negative relationship. Family size and agricultural knowledge of the farmers had non significant positive relationships with training needs of farmers on potato cultivation but annual family income, organizational participation, cosmopoliteness and knowledge on potato production & marketing had non significant negative relationshipItem JOB SATISFACTION OF FEMALE AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION OFFICERS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION (DAE)(DEPT. OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION & INFORMATION SYSTEM, 2011) NURANI, NUR-E SHAHRMINThe study was conducted to determine and describe job satisfaction among the Female Agricultural Extension Officers (FAEOs) under the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE). All the Female Agricultural Extension Officers of different upozillas were the population of' the study and the sample as well .A questionnaire was prepared keeping in view the objectives. Professional commitment, Age. job performance. technological knowledge problem confrontation capacity, motivation. supervision, personality, training, innitiativeness of addressing lamiers' problem were independent variables. it was pretested among ten Female Agricultural Extension Officers at. DAE Head Quarter. Then the corrected questionnaires were mailed to the addresses of 150 Female Agricultural Extension Officers in August 2012 and returned back by 30 August 2012. Out of which 65 duly filled up questionnaire were returned back to the researcher. Speannan correlation coefficient was chosen as data analysis method. The study revealed that majority of' the respondcnts (35.38%) had low job satisfaction followed by 33.85 0 /o medium and 30.77% high satisfaction. From the spearnian coefficient analysis it was found that all the independent variables except training had no significant relationship. However, some variables like job performance, technological knowledge and personality tended to be significant. 'l'herc was significant relationship between training and job satisfaction of FAEOs of DAE at one percent levelItem USE OF COMMUNICATION SOURCES IN RECEIVING AGRICULTURAL INFORMATION BY THE RURAL WOMEN(DEPT. OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION & INFORMATION SYSTEM, 2011) KAMRUZZAMANThe purpose of the study was to have an understanding on the communication sources of the rural women regarding agricultural activities, the locus of the study was the involvement of rural women in agricultural activities in Sur;vamani union tinder Rauphal upazila of Patuakhali district. Attempts were also made to detenninc and describe the selected characteristics of the rural women and to determine the relationship of the selected characteristics of the rural women with their use of communication sources. Data were collected from a random sample of IOU rural women of two selected village, namely Ramnagar and Nurainpur of Patuakhali district. Data revealed that more than half (59%) ol the respondent had low use of communication sources in their agricultural activities as compare to 33% having medium and only 8% use of high communication sources. The characteristics such as age and time spent in agricultural work had no relationship with their use of communication sources. The other characteristics such as level of education, family size. annual litwily income. ttrm size, organizational participatioi't and agricultural knowledge of the rural women had signi ñcant positive relationship with their use of communication sources in agricultural activities. Utilization of ten technologies by the rural women, the communication sources score ranged from 12 to 45 against the possible score C) to IOU to utilize these technology for their agricultural activity. It indicates very poor use of' communication sources by the rural women in the study area.