VEGETABLE FARMERS ATTITUDE TOWARDS FOOD SAFETY

Abstract

The main purpose of this study was to determine the Vegetable Farmers‟ Attitude Towards Food Safety and explore the contribution of the selected characteristics of the growers on their Attitude Towards Food Safety. The selected characteristics were age, education, family size, farm size, annual family income, training exposure, extension contact, time spent in vegetable farming and cosmopoliteness. Data were gathered from proportionally and randomly selected 107 respondents (vegetable farmers) of three villages of Mirzapur union of Shailokupa upazila under Jhenaidah district by using a pretested interview schedule during the period of 1 II st October to 30 December, 2019. Apart from descriptive statistical methods, multiple regressions analysis was used in order to analyze the data. Findings indicated that the majority (48.59%) of the respondents had favorable attitude towards food safety, 31.78% had unfavorable attitude towards food safety and 19.63% had neutral attitude towards food safety. Out of nine selected characteristics of the respondents, education, training exposure, extension contact and cosmopoliteness had positive significant contribution with their attitude towards food safety. The rest of the variables namely: age, family size, farm size, annual family income and time spent in vegetable farming did not show any significant contribution with their attitude towards food safety.