EFFECTIVENESS OF AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES OF WORLD VISION IN GAZIPUR

Abstract

The purposes of this study were to find out the Effectiveness of Agricultural Activities of World Vision in Gazipur, to determine and describe the selected characteristics of the World Vision beneficiaries, the effectiveness of agricultural activities of World Vision and to explore the relationship between the selected characteristics of World Vision beneficiaries with the extent of effectiveness of agricultural activities of World Vision as perceived by them. The study was conducted in twenty-one development groups and seven villages of Gazipur sadar upazilla. Data were collected from a sample of randomly selected I 05 beneficiaries out of total beneficiaries 525. The data were collected through personal interview by using an interview schedule during the period from 201h February to 21st March 2006. Appropriate scales were developed in order to measure the variables. Pearson's Product Moment Correlation Co-efficient (r) was computed to examine the relationship between the concerned variables. Findings revealed that 72.4 percent of the beneficiaries perceived medium level of effectiveness of agricultural activities of World Vision as compared to 15.2 percent and I 2.4 percent perceived low and high effectiveness respectively. Correlation analysis indicated that six characteristics of beneficiaries namely education, family income, credit received, attitude towards World Vision activities and participation in agricultural activities had significant positive relationships with the effectiveness of agricultural activities of World Vision. On the other hand, age had significant negative relationship. Farm size, organizational participation, communication behavior and cosmopoliteness had no relationship with the effectiveness of agricultural activities of World Vision as perceived by the beneficiaries.