ATTITUDE OF FARMERS TOWARDS AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES OF MOHILA BOHUMUKHI SHIKKHA KENDRA

Abstract

The main purpose of the study was to determine attitude of farmers towards agricultural activities of Mohila Bohumukhi Shikkha Kendra (MBSK). The study was carried out in Uthrail union of Sadar upazilla under Dinajpur District. Ninety two (92) farmers were selected as sample from 368 farmers involved with MBSK. Data were collected by a pretested interview schedule during 20 September to 15 October, 2018. Simple and direct questions with different scales were used to obtain information. Co-efficient of correlation (r) was computed in order to explore the relationships between the nine selected characteristics of the farmers and their attitude towards agricultural activities of MBSK. More than fifty percent (54.3 percent) of the farmers had moderately favorable attitude towards agricultural activities of MBSK while 44.6 percent had highly favorable attitude and only 1.1 percent had slightly favorable attitude towards agricultural activities of MBSK. Correlation analyses indicated that among nine selected characteristics education, annual income, and organizational participation, agricultural training received and innovativeness of the farmers had positive significant relationships with their attitude towards agricultural activities of MBSK. However, age, family size, farm size, and cosmopoliteness of the farmers had no significant relationships with their attitude towards agricultural activities of MBSK. The most common problem faced by the farmers was “Disease and insect infestation” (92.39 percent) and ranked first as per opined by the farmers. ‘High input cost’ (70.65 percent) was the last ranked (5th) problem as cited by the farmers.