FARMERS’ FOOD SECURITY STATUS IN BANGLADESH

Abstract

Food security is a condition related to the supply of food, and individuals' access to it. The research was designed to investigate the farmers’ food security status. The methodology of this study is an integration of quantitative and qualitative methods based on data collection in Betbaria, Vobanipur and Naodapara villages of Kazipur union Gangni upazila of Meherpur district. Data were collected from 121 farmers from February 05 to March 06, 2017. Descriptive statistics, Multiple regression (B), Problem Facing Index (PFI) were used for analysis. Majority of the farmers had medium category of food security. Findings reveal that the farmers level of education, family size, effective farm size, farmer`s daily wage value, economic status, Body Mass Index (BMI) and knowledge on food security had significant contribution to change in food security including the dimensions of the food security policy. Majority (53.7%) of the farmers faced medium level problems in achieving household food security. Based on the findings, it is recommended that respective authorities should implement and popularize farmers based projects on a massive scale for achieving household food security status of the farmers.