Abstract:
The purpose of the study was to have an understanding on the communication
exposure of the rural women regarding homestead gardening. Attempts were
also made to determine and describe the selected characteristics of the rural
women and to determine the relationship of the selected characteristics of the
rural women with their communication exposure. Data were collected from a
random sample of 100 rural women of a selected village, namely Tebaria of
Kushtia district.
Data revealed that more than half (58%) of the respondent had medium
communication exposure, while 23% and 19% had low and high communication
exposure regarding homestead gardening respectively. Education, land possession,
gardening experience, homestead gardening knowledge and organizational
participation of the rural women had significant positive relationship with their
communication exposure regarding homestead gardening. The other
characteristics such as age, family size, homestead garden size and time spent in
gardening of the rural women were not associated with their communication
exposure. Out of twelve communication media, Radio, neighbor, television,
experienced women and group discussion came out as first five effective
communication media used by the rural women regarding homestead gardening.
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
