Abstract:
The main purpose of the study was to determine and describe the extent of adoption
of high yielding varieties (HYV) of rice by the farmers of Raj pat union under Kasiani
upazila in Gopalgonj district. Attempts were also made to describe some of the
selected characteristics of the HYV rice farmers and their relationship with their
adoption of I IYV rice. Data were obtained from I 00 randomly selected farmers of
two villages namely Rajpat and Shilta with the help of an interview schedule. Data
were collected during 15 February to 16 March 2006. The findings revealed that
majority (50%) of the HYV rice farmers had medium adoption compared to 5%
having low adoption and 45% having high adoption. The selected three varieties were
BR26, BRRl Dhan28, and BRRI Dhan29. Among those selected varieties BRR!
Dhan-29 variety was overwhelming accepted mostly by the farmers and the adoption
index was 11680.87. Correlation test was used to ascertain the relationship between
the concerned variable of the study. Out of ten independent variables, farmers' age.
level of education, annual income, contact with extension staff, attitude towards HYV
rice and knowledge on HYV rice cultivation had significant positive relationship with
their adoption of HYV rice. On the other hand family size, farm size, organizational
participation and cosmopoliteness of farmers had no relationship with their adoption
of selected HYV rice cultivation. Farmers indicated that there were 15 problems.
which hindered the adoption of selected HYV rice. Among the problems three
important problems were: High price of fertilizer, High price of HYV seeds, Requires
of high amount of fertilizer in rice crops.
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
