ADOPTION OF HOMESTEAD VEGETABLE PRODUCTION TECHNIQUES BY THE RURAL WOMEN

Abstract

The main purpose of the study was to determine the extent of adoption of homestead vegetable production techniques by the rural women, explore the relationship between the selected characteristics of the rural women and their adoption of homestead vegetable production techniques and compare among the problem faced by the rural women in homestead vegetable production techniques. The selected characteristics of the rural women were age, education, farm size, annual family income, training exposure, decision making ability, organizational participation, agricultural knowledge extension contact, and problem faced in homestead vegetable production. The study was conducted in five randomly selected villages from 5 unions under Daganhhuiyan Upazila of Feni District. Data were obtained from 95 randomly selected rural women of five villages namely Purbochadrapur. Alaearpur. Chandipur, Jogotpur and Momarijpur. Pearson's correlation co-efficient was used to explore the relationship between the selected characteristics of the respondent rural women and their adoption of homestead vegetable production techniques. Findings showed that the majority of the respondent women had medium adopters (40 percent) in homestead vegetable production techniques adoption, while 35.79 percent of the respondents having low adoptions. Only 24.21 percent of the respondents had high homestead vegetable production adopters. Among the ten selected characteristics, extension contact, organizational participation, farm size and agricultural knowledge had significant positive relationship with the adoption of homestead vegetable production techniques. The other selected characteristics such as age, level of education, training exposure, decision making ability and problem faced in homestead vegetable production had no significant relationship with the adoption of homestead vegetable production techniques