WOMEN'S REQUIREMENTS FOR CAPACITY BUILDING IN POST HARVEST ACTIVITES OF VEGETABLES

Abstract

The specific objective of the study was to determine the women's requirements for capacity building in post harvest activities of vegetables. Attempts were also made to determine ten selected characteristics of the women and their relationship with requirements for capacity building in post harvest activities of vegetables and to find out the problems faced by the women in using improved post harvest technologies of vegetables. Data were collected from a sample of 100 women vegetables growers of the two villages of Roailbari union of Kendua upazila of Netrokona district. Pearson's correlation co-efficient was used to determine the relationships between the selected characteristics of the women with their requirements for capacity building. The highest proportion (63 percent) of the respondents had high extent of requirements while 34 percent of them had medium and only 3 percent of them had low extent of requirements for capacity building. Women's farm size, annual family income and use of post harvest technology showed significant negative relationship with their requirement's for capacity building in post harvest activities of vegetables but credit received and knowledge on vegetables production were positively significant. On the other hand. the rest of characteristics viz, age, education, dependency ratio of the family. decision making capacity and training received did not show any significant relationship with their requirements for capacity building in post harvest activities of vegetables. According to problem faced index (FF1), 'Lack of knowledge on post harvest activities of vegetables' was ranked first followed by 'Distance from sale centre' and 'Lack of marketing facility' while 'Low access to communication media' and 'Others' ranked last.