Abstract:
The main purpose of the study was to determine the extent of use of different
media as agricultural information sources in Nilphamari district and to explore
the relationships between the selected characteristics of the respondents and
their use of different media as agricultural information sources. The study was
conducted in five villages of Kamarpukur union of Saidpur upazila namely,
Bangalipur, Lakkhanpur, Kamarpukur, Sonakhali and Botlagari. Data were
collected from randomly selected 100 farmers by using a pre-tested interview
schedule during the period from September I 0 to October l 0, 2007. Highest
proportion ( 44 percent) of the farmers had low use of different media as
agricultural information sources compared to 34 and 22 percent having medium
use and high use of different media as agricultural information sources
respectively. Among eight selected characteristic. Education, organizational
participation, innovativeness, knowledge on agriculture had significant positive
relationship with their use of different media as agricultural information
sources. Besides, the farmers indicated 6 problems regarding the use of
different media as agricultural information sources. Out of these, three
problems in descending order of Problem Confrontation Index (PCl) were (i)
"Unavailability of newspapers related to agriculture", (ii) "High price of
batteries for Radio" and (iii) "Lack of cooperation from SAAO".
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
