EFFECTIVENESS OF RESULT DEMONSTRATION IN ADOPTION OF BRRI DHAN 28/29

Abstract

his study was intended to investigate the farmer's opimon towards the effectiveness of result demonstration in adoption of BRRI dhan-28 I 29 and to explore the relationship between the effectiveness of result demonstration and some of selected characteristics of the farmers. The selected characteristics includes: age, education, family size, farm size, annual income, extension media contact, organizational participation and agriculture knowledge of the farmers. The data were collected from the villages of Birbagber, Baznabo and Dakshindhuru of the Belabo Upazilla under Narsingdi District The data were collected through personal interview by using an interview schedule during the period from 15 October to 5, December 2006. Pearson's product moment correlation co-efficient (r) was computed to examine the relationship between the concerned variables. Finding revealed that 65 percent farmers considered result demonstration as medium effective while 12.5 percent low effective and 17 .5 percent farmers considered as highly effectives respectively. Correlation analysis indicated that the characteristics such as Education, farm size, Annual income, Extension contact and Agricultural knowledge of the farmers had significant and positive relationship with their opinion about the effectiveness of result demonstration in adoption of BRRI dhan-28 I 29. On the other hand age, family size, and organizational participation of the farmers had no relationship with the effectiveness of result demonstration in adoption of BRRI dhan-28 I 29.