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    FARMER’S KNOWLEDGE ON ECOLOGICAL AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES
    (DEPT. OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION & INFORMATION SYSTEM, 2007-12) ISLAM, MOHAMMAD AMINUL
    The main purpose of the study was to determine the extent of knowledge on ecological agriculture of the farmer as supervised by Proshika. Attempts were also made to describe some selected characteristics of Proshika farmers and their relationship with knowledge of ecological agricultural practices. The selected characteristics were: age, education, farm size, area under ecological farming, farming experience, experience in ecological farming, annual income, training exposure and extension contact. One hundred Proshika fanners were randomly selected from a total of 125 farmers in Dhamrai upazilla under Dhaka district. A pre-tested questionnaire was used for collecting data through face-to-face interview. The duration of the study was 30 days from 01 to 31 August, 2007. Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (r) was used to determine the relationship of farmers’ knowledge on ecological agricultural practiccs with their selected characteristics. T-tcst was used to determine the significance of the parameters. The finding revealed that average age of the respondents was 39.34 years. In the case of educational level 61 percent was within primary level. Average farm size of the respondent was 0.76 ha and area under ecological agriculture in past and present year was same. Average farming experience of the respondent was 21.36 years. It was also found from the study that 84 percent of the respondents were in medium category in case of experience of ecological farming and they were involved 4.68 years in ecological farming. The average income of the respondents was Tk 74858.80. Majority (68 percent) of the farmers possessed medium knowledge compared to 23 percent had high knowledge and only 9 percent low knowledge on ecological agriculture. Out of nine selected characteristics of the respondents, education, farm size, area under ecological agriculture, experience of ecological agriculture and annual income had positive significant relationship with their knowledge on ecological agriculture. Farmers’ age, training exposure and extension contract was negatively correlated with their knowledge on ecological agriculture while farming experience did not have any significant relationship with knowledge.
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    EFFECTIVENESS OF AGRICULTURE RELATED TELEVISION PROGRAMMES FOR DISSEMINATION OF AGRICULTURAL INFORMATION TO THE FARMERS
    (DEPT. OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION & INFORMATION SYSTEM, 2007-12) Khatun, Nazma
    The main focus of the study was to have an understanding on the perception of farmers regarding effectiveness of agriculture related TV programmes for the dissemination of agricultural information. Attempt was also made to explore the relationship between some of the selected characteristics of the farmers and their perceived effectiveness of agriculture related TV programmes for the dissemination of agricultural information. The characteristics of the farmers such as age, level of education, farm size, farming experience, annual family income, agricultural knowledge, attitude towards agriculture related TV programmes, innovativeness, personal localite behavior and time spent for TV watching of the farmers. Data were collected personally through interview schedule from one hundred randomly selected farmers of three selected villages like Uttar Nari Bari, Narayonpur and Hamlaykul of Gurudaspur upazila under Natore district. Data were collected during 1 July to 15 August, 2007. The Pearson’s product moment correlation co-efficient was used to determine the relationship between the dependent and independent variables. Majority (76%) of the farmers perceived agriculture related TV programmes as medium effective while 9% high effective and 15% low effective, level of education, annual family income, agricultural knowledge, attitude towards agriculture related TV programmes, innovativeness, personal localite behavior and time spent for TV watching of the respondents had significant positive relationship with their perceived effectiveness of agriculture related TV programmes for the dissemination of agricultural information. Whereas age, farm size and farming experience of the farmers had no significant relationship with the effectiveness of agriculture related TV programmes for dissemination of agricultural information as perceived by the farmers. On the basis of Effectiveness Index (El), homestead vegetables cultivation ranked first followed by livestock raring and preparation of compost. The 4Ih and 5th information were beef fattening and poultry rearing. Preparation of nurseries and improved technologies of tree plantation were the less effective information those were ranked 10 and 11 .
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    FARMERS' ADOPTION OF MODERN MAIZE CULTIVATION
    (DEPT. OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION & INFORMATION SYSTEM, 2007) MASUD, MD. ALINUR
    he main objective of the study was to find out the extent of adoption of modem maize cultivation by the farmers, to describe the selected characteristics of the maize growers and also to explore the relationships between the selected characteristics of the growers and their adoption of modem maize cultivation. The study was conducted in a union named Sundalpur under Daudkandi upazila of Comilla district. A total of 100 farmers were selected as sample for the study from a population of 496. Data were collected from the maize growers by using personal interview schedule during the period from first January to 15 January, 2008. Apart from descriptive statistical methods, Pearson's Product Moment Correlation Co-efficient analysis was used in order to analyze the data. Findings indicated that the majority (65 percent) of the growers had medium to high adoption of modern maize cultivation while 35 percent had low adoption. Out of nine selected characteristics of the growers, three, namely education, farm size and extension contact, had positive significant relationship. The rest of the variables namely: age, innovativeness, knowledge in maize cultivation, annual income, cosmopoliteness and agricultural training exposure did not show any significant relationships with their adoption of modern maize cultivation. Out of 12 problems faced by the farmers, two problems in order of importance were: (i) non-availability of hybrid seed and (ii) non-availability of storage facilities at framer's level.
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    IMPACT OF GRAMEEN BANK MICRO CREDIT PROGRAM ON POVERTY ALLEVIATION OF RURAL WOMEN
    (DEPT. OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION & INFORMATION SYSTEM, 2007) SOLAIMAN, MOHAMMAD
    The main objective of this study was to determine and describe the impact of Gramccn Dank micro credit program on poverty alleviation of rural women and to explore the relationship between the selected characteristics and impact of micro credit of Grameen Bank. Poverty alleviation was measured by computing the different dimensions of change, such as change in income, change in food consumption and change in housing environment of the credit receivers after their involvement in Gramccn Bank micro credit program. The average annual income, per capita daily caloric intake, housing environment score of the respondents increased at 2.348 thousand taka, 191.883 kilo calories and 6.02 respectively after involvement with Grameen Bank micro credit program. Before involvement 89 per cent of the respondents had Katcha Ghar with tin roof, after involvement the percentage was 93. Thirty eight per cent of the respondents used half sanitary toilet before involvement where aflcr involvement this percentage turned into 55 per cent. Before involvement with Gramecn Bank micro-credit program 9 per cent of the respondents' farniJies had own tube well but after program this percentage was 19. The farm size, annual savings, cosmopolitcncss, credit received and duration of involvement with Grameen Bank micro credit program had significant relationship with the impact of micro-credit. Ilowever, age, education, family size of the respondents and attitude towards Grameen Bank micro credit program did not show any significant relationship with the impact of Gramccn Bank micro credit. The inadequate supply or credit facilities against their demand identified as respondents' main problem.
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    CONTRIBUTION OF SMALL SCALE POULTRY FARMING IN BANGLADESH
    (DEPT. OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION & INFORMATION SYSTEM, 2007) HANNAN, MD. ABDUL
    The study was undertaken to investigate the socioeconomic characteristics of poultry farm owners and to assess the relative profitability of broiler and layer poultry farms and to determine the contributions of key variables to the production process of the farms. In total. 80 poultry fan'tm. 40 from each of the selected broiler and layer poultry Rirms were selected randomly in Savar ljpazilla of Dhaka district. Data was collected during 10 July to 10 August 2007 with the help of Interview schedule. Coefficient of coiTciation was used in artier to analyze data in accordance with the objectives. To achieve the main objective of the study, a simple tabular analysis and the cost and return analysis were done. Cobb-Douglas production function model was also employed to estiniatc the contributions of the key variables: feed, human labour, vaccine and medicine, electricity to the production of poultry farms. The study revealed that on an average the total costs per poultry farm per year were Tk 2. 88,581.00 and 3. 24,661.00 for broiler and layer farm, respectively. The yearly gross returns from per broiler thrni were Tk 3, 54,093.00 and from per layer poultry farm were Tk. 4. 64,971.00 having net returns were Tk 65,512.00 and Tk 1, 40310.00. respectively. This implies that layer poultry farm was more profitable than broiler poultry farm. Correlation analysis shows that level of education. farm size, annual family income. Cosmopoliteness. poultry farming knowledge, training and annual expense had significant relationship with their Farm profit. However, age and family size of the poultry farmers had no signiheant relationship with their farm profit. This study also revealed that sample poultry (lirni owners Riced some important problems, such as: capital and credit constraints. high prices of feed, frequent occurrence of diseases, inadequacy of veterinary care and services, non-availability of chicks, low market price of products and pollution of environment made by chicks. If steps were taken to solve these problems, the owners of both broiler and layer poultry farms could earn much higher profits than the existing level.
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    ADOPTION OF BRRI DHAN 29 PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES BY THE FARMERS
    (DEPT. OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION & INFORMATION SYSTEM, 2007) ISLAM, MOHAMMAD ZAHORUL
    The main purpose of the study was to determine and describe the extent of adoption of BRRI dhan 29 production technologies by the farmers and to explore the relationships between the selected characteristics of the respondents and their extent adoption of BRRl dhan 29 production technologies. The study was conducted in Shambhag union covering two villages of Dhamrai upazila under Dhaka district. Data were collected from the farmers by using a pre-tested interview schedule during the period from 15th July to 17th August 2007. From the study it was found that the highest proportion (74 percent) of the farmers had high adoption of BRRI dhan 29 production technologies compared to medium (26 percent) adoption of BRRl dhan 29 production technologies. 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, annual family income, commercialization, cosmopoliteness and extension contact showed positive significant relationship with their adoption. On the other hand age, family size and organizational participation did not show any significant relationship with their adoption ofBRRI dhan 29 production technologies.
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    IMPACT OF BRAC MICRO-CREDIT PROGRAM ON SOCIO-ECONOMIC UPLIFI'MENT OF RURAL WOMEN BENEFICIARIES
    (DEPT. OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION & INFORMATION SYSTEM, 2007) HOSSAIN, MD. DELWAR
    micro credit program measured by computing change in income, change in food consumption, change in housing environment and change in decision-making ability of the credit receivers after their involvement in BRAC micro credit program. Attempts were also made to describe some of the selected characteristics of the women beneficiaries and their relationships with the impact of BRAC micro credit program. The income, food consumption, housing environment and decision-making ability of the credit receivers increased significantly after their involvement with BRAC micro credit program. The average annual income, per capita daily calorie intake, housing environment and decision-making ability score of the respondents increased at 5.03 thousand taka, 218.90 kilo calories and 9.56 and 1.81 respectively after involvement with BRAC micro credit program. Before involvement 35 percent of the respondents had Kutcha Ghar with tin roof, but after involvement the percentage was 60. Nineteen percent of the respondents used half sanitary toilet before involvement where as after involvement this percentage turned into 34 percent. Before involvement with BRAC micro-credit program 31 percent of the respondents' families had own tube well but after involvement in the program this percentage raised to 54. The education, farm size, cosmopoliteness credit received, and attitude towards BRAC micro credit program had significant relationship with the impact of micro­ credit program. However, age, family size and duration of involvement with BRAC micro credit program of the respondents did not show any significant relationship with the impact of BRAC micro credit program. High rate of interest identified as the main problem of the respondents.
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    USE OF MASS MEDIA BY THE FARMERS IN RECEIVING AGRICUTURAL INFORAMTION
    (DEPT. OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION & INFORMATION SYSTEM, 2007) UDDIN, KHANDKER FARID
    The main objectives of this study were to determine and describe the use of mass media by the farmers in receiving agricultural information and the individual characteristics of the farmers and also to explore the relationship between the use of mass media and selected characteristics. Data were collected from I 00 farmers of three villages of Ghatail upazila under Tangail district, by using a structured personal interview schedule. Appropriate scales were developed in order to measure the concerned variables. A statistical software package named SPSS was used to analyze the data and Karl Pearson Product Moment Correlation Co­ efficient was used to test the relationship between the independent and dependent variables. The findings revealed that 50 percent of the respondents had medium use, 32 percent had low use, 4 percent had no use and only 14 percent had high use of mass media. Television was found to have more uses followed by agricultural fair, newspaper, radio and poster respectively by the farmers.The findings also revealed that education, farm size, annual family income, agricultural knowledge, organizational participation, cosmopoliteness and innovativeness had significant positive relationship with the use of mass media by the farmers. However, farming experience of the respondents had significant negative relationship while age and farming facilities of the farmers had no relationship with their use of mass media in receiving agricultural information.
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    CONSTRAINTS FACED BY THE FARMERS IN THE CULTIVATION OF OIL SEED AND PULSE
    (DEPT. OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION & INFORMATION SYSTEM, 2007) HOSSAIN PK, MD KHIJIR
    The purpose of this study was to investigate the farmers' constraints faced in oil seed and pulse crop cultivation and also to explore the relationship between the selected characteristics of the farmers and their constraints faced. The study was conducted in purposively selected 3 villages of Dubchancbia upazila under Bogra district. All the oil seed and pulse crop cultivators of the study area were constituted the population of the study. One hundred oil seed and pulse crop growers were selected randomly as the sample of the study by taking proportionately 20 percent from three selected villages. Data were collected from these farmers by using an interview schedule during 25 June to 30 July 2007. Co-efficient of correlation (r) was computed in order to explore the relationship between the selected characteristics of the respondents and their constraints faced in oil seed and pulse cultivation. The findings revealed that 87 percent of the farmers faced medium to high constraints, while only 13 percent respondents faced low constraints in oil seed and pulse cultivation. Land possessions, cropping intensity, land under oil seed and pulse cultivation, extension contact, knowledge on oil seed and pulse cultivation and attitude towards oil seed and pulse crop cultivation of the farmers were found to have significant negative relationship with their constraints faced in oil seed and pulse cultivation. But age, education, family size, net cropped area, total cropped area and annual family income of the farmers had no significant relationship with their constraints faced in oil seed and pulse cultivation.
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    PARTICIPATION OF DIPSHIKHA BENEFICIARIES IN SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES
    (DEPT. OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION & INFORMATION SYSTEM, 2007) RAHMAN, MD. RASHEDUR
    The main purpose of the study was to ascertain the extent of participation by the Dipshikha beneliciaries in different development activities. Attempts were also made to describe some of the selected characteristics of the respondents and to explore the relationships between selected characteristics of the respondents and their participation in overall Dipshikha activities. The study was conducted in three unions consisting eleven villages under Birganj upazila of Dinajpur district. Out of 479 beneficiary families, 120 member families of Dipshikha were selected randomly and proportionately. Data were collected by using interview schedule during 2nd October to 31 " October, 2007. Participation of the respondents in three major activities was ascertained through a four point rating scale. Then overall activities was measured by adding the obtained scores of three dimensions activities such as income generating activities, 'health, hygiene & sanitation activities' and women development activities. Coefficient of correlation (r) was computed in order to explore the relationships between selected characteristics of the respondents and their participation in overall Dipshikha activities. Participation Index (P1) was computed which ranged from 0 to 300. 'Use of tube well water' and 'Taking iodized salt' had the same rank as 1.5 and obtained P1 is 300, where 'Candle marketing' and Soap marketing' had the same rank as 33.5 and obtained P1 is 0. The possible participation score in overall activities ranged from 0 to 102. where the observed participation score was found 28-68 with an average 51.93 and standard deviation 8.69. It was observed that majority of the respondents (64.17 percent) had medium participation, 15.83 percent had low participation and 20 percent of them had high participation in overall Dipshikha activities. The findings revealed that level of education, farm size, annual income, training exposure, savings, credit availability, implementation of family development plan and attitude towards Dipshikha of the respondents had significant positive relationships with their participation in overall Dipshikha activities. Age, involvement with Dipshikha, family size and acceptance of loan received conditions by the respondents had no statistically significant relationships with their participation in overall Dipshikha activities.