UTILIZATION OF AGRICULTURAL MACHINERIES BY THE FARMERS OF SAGHATTA UPAZILLA UNDER GAIBANDHA DISTRICT

Abstract

Abstract The main purpose of this study was to determine the extent of utilization of agricultural machineries by the farmers and to explore the relationship of each of the selected characteristics of the farmers with their utilization of agricultural machinery. The selected characteristics were age, education, farm working area, annual family income, extension contact, possession agricultural implements and satisfaction on agricultural implements. Data were gathered from 107 farmers of four villages namely Sathalia, Jugipara, Jadur Tair and Mothor para of Saghatta upazila under Gaibandha district by using personal interview schedule during the period from 24 th October to 16 th November, 2020. The Findings revealed that 86.9 percent of the farmers had medium use of farm implements as compared to 13.1 percent of them having low utilization of the same. Pearson’s Product Moment coefficient of correlation (r) show that farm working area, annual family income, extension contact, possession of agril. implements and satisfaction of agril. implements had significant positive relationship with their utilization of farm implements while rest of the variables show non significant relationship with their use of farm implements. Constraints faced Index (CFI) in using of farm implements, indicated that “high cost of agril. machineries” ranked the 1 problem followed by “weather related issues”. Key words: utilization, agricultural machineries, constrained faced st