FARMERS’ SATISFACTION TOWARDS CULTIVATION OF SELECTED HYV AMAN RICE

Abstract

The main objective of this study was to determine and describe the farmers’ satisfaction towards cultivation of selected HYV Aman rice. Data were collected from 103 farmers of five villages of Gazipur sadar upazilla under Gazipur district who cultivated BRRI dhan 49 and BRRI dhan 34 by using a structured interview schedule. Appropriate scales were developed in order to measure the concerned variables. A statistical software package named SPSS was used to analyze the data and Karl Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient was used to test the relationship between the independent and dependent variables. Farmers’ satisfaction is the most crucial issues whether they cultivate recommended variety or not. Researcher has tried to measure the farmers’ satisfaction towards cultivation of BRRI dhan 49 and BRRI dhan 34. Researcher found that there were no sharp differences with regard to satisfaction towards cultivation of BRRI dhan 49 and BRRI dhan 34. That’s why; farmers were equally satisfied with the relative advantages of both the cultivars. The findings also revealed that level of education, farm size, organization participation, extension media contact, cosmopoliteness and knowledge on rice cultivation had positive significant relationship on farmers’ satisfaction towards cultivation of selected HYV Aman rice. But, age, family size and annual income had no relationship with farmers’ satisfaction towards cultivation of selected HYV Aman rice.