ADOPTION OF BRRI DHAN 74 PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES BY THE FARMERS OF BRAHMANPARA UPAZILA UNDER CUMILLA DISTRICT

Abstract

The purposes of the study were to determine the socioeconomic characteristics of the BRRI dhan74 growers; to determine the extent of adoption of BRRI dhan 74 production technologies and to explore the contribution of the factors that significantly influences adoption of BRRI dhan 74 production technologies by the farmers. The study was undertaken purposively in Brahmanpara upazila under Cumilla district. Validated and well-structured interview schedule was used to collect data from 121 BRRI dhan 74 growers during 15th July, 2021 to 20 August, 2021. Descriptive statistics, multiple regressions were used for analysis. Above half (57.02%) of the farmers had medium adoption of BRRI dhan 74 production technologies while 15.70 percent and 27.28 percent of the farmers had high and low adoption of BRRI dhan 74 production, respectively. Among 12 selected characteristics of the farmers five characteristics namely- education, experience in rice farming, annual family income, training on BRRI dhan 74 cultivation and media contact of the respondents had significant positive contribution to their adoption of BRRI dhan74 production technologies. The rest 7 characteristics namely, age, farm size, family size, land under BRRI dhan 74 production, experience in BRRI dhan 74 production, income from BRRI dhan 74 cultivation and organizational participation had no significant contribution with their adoption of BRRI dhan74 production technologies.