Abstract:
The purpose of the study was to determine the extent of adoption of selected wheat
varieties by the farmers and to explore the relationships between farmers’
characteristics and their adoption of selected wheat varieties. Saintara union under
Chirirbandar upazila of Dinajpur district was the locale of the study. Data were
collected by using interview schedule from 80 farmers selected randomly during
10
th
October to 15
th
November, 2006. The finding revealed that more than half
(55%) of the growers had medium adoption, 23.8 percent had low adoption and
21.2 percent had high adoption of selected wheat varieties. Computed ‘r’ values
indicate that selected characteristics of the farmers, namely, training received,
cosmopoliteness, attitude towards wheat cultivation, innovativeness,
communication behaviour and knowledge on wheat cultivation had significant
positive relationship with the adoption of selected wheat varieties. Age, education,
farm size and annual family income had no significant relationships with the
adoption of selected wheat varieties. More than half (56.2 percent) of the growers
faced medium problems compared to 16.3 and 27.5 percent of low and high
problem respectively regarding adoption of selected wheat varieties. Ten problems
indicated by the growers, which they confronted related to wheat cultivation. Five
major problems in descending order of Problem Confrontation Index were: (1)
Non availability of wheat seeds in the market, (2) High price of fertilizers, (3)
Lack of Agricultural machineries and tools for wheat cultivation, (4) Non
availability of pesticides and (5) Scarcity of fertilizer supply in time
.
Description:
A Thesis
Submitted to the Faculty of Agriculture,
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka,
in partial fulfillment of the requirements
for the degree of
MASTER OF SCIENCE
IN
AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AND INFORMATION SYSTEM
