Abstract:
The main purpose of !hc study was to determine the extent of adoption ot roof
gardening at Mirpur- ] 0 area under Dhaka city. Attempts were also macic
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describe some selected characteristics of the building inhahilants of this area.
The selected elm racicrisi cs were: age. Family
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1im ily education, Iamilv
annual income, roof gardening experience, use of information sources, attitude
towards roof aardenilia
,
and knowledge on roof gardening. One hundred
respondents were randomly selected from Mirpur- 10 a rca tinder Oliaka city.
Da!a were collected by using a jrctcstcd personal irtten'icw schedule during
May2006. Pearson's Product Moment Correlation "r' was used to determine
the relationship between the selected characteristics of the respondents with
their extent
or
adoplion oF roof gardening. l'he findings revealed thac iiiajoritv
(62 percent) oF the respondents possessed no adoption compared
10
15% and
230
had low and medium adopt ion of roo (garden lug respect iveiv.
0111 of nine selected chamceristics of' the respoiicicn Is, Ihnu Iv ;izc roof
gardening experience. use of information sources - altitude towards roof
gardening and knowledge on roof gardening had posilive SRZ1)itjeaflt
relationship with their adoption of roof garcienlim. C)ther charac;erit ics
nameR:.: age. lamilv education and !amdy annual iiieoine did not
show
any
significant relationship with the respondents adoption of roof gardening. i'hc
ma in problem of roof gardening was selected
as lack of
,
time .Most of, I
he
rcspondents were interested
to flower plant
for
their roof gardcn
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
