ATTITUDE OF RURAL WOMEN TOWARDS LIVESTOCK REARING IN MAGURA SADAR UPAZILA

Abstract

Livestock (goat, poultry and cattle) are domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting to produce commodities such as food, fiber, and labor. The study examined the attitude of rural women towards livestock rearing and estimated the contribution of the selected characteristics of the rural women to their attitude towards livestock rearing. Data were collected from 118 rural women of Magura sadar upazila from January 20 to February 20, 2017. Descriptive statistics, multiple regression were used for analysis. Most of the rural women (66.1 %) had moderately favorable attitude while 13.6 and 20.3 percent of them had highly and poorly favorable attitude towards livestock rearing. Among the variables- education, livestock rearing experience, usages of mass media, training exposure, livestock management practices, financial facilities, and knowledge on livestock rearing were significant contributor and provided 63.1 percent contribution on rural women’s attitude towards livestock rearing. Majority (71.2 %) rural women faced medium problems on livestock rearing, while lack of grazing land positioned the 1 xiii

st and environmental hazards in last position regarding problems on livestock rearing. Based on the findings, it is recommended that respective authorities i.e., DLS, DAE and NGOs should implement and popularize women based projects on a massive scale for increasing livestock rearing.