Abstract:
purpose of the study was to determine the extent of adoption of brinjal
production technologies by the fanners. Attempts were made to explore the
relationships between the selected characteristics of farmers and adoption of
selected technologies Data were obtained from 100 randomly selected farmers
froma total of 507 in Shampur union under Islampur upazila of Jamalpur district
during 10 February to 10 March 2006 with the help of an interview schedule.
Appropriate scales were developed in order to measure the variables. Correlation
test was used to ascertain the relationships between the concerned variables of the
study. The findings revealed that, majority (69 percent) of the farmers had medium
adoption while 17 percent had low adoption and 14 percent had high adoption of
selected brinjal production technologies. Correlation analysis indicate that among
the selected characteristics of the farmers, education, family size, farm size, annual
family income, farming experience, extension contact, training exposure and
organizational participation showed significant positive relationships with the
adoption of brinjal production technologies. On the other hand age and
cosmopohteness of fanners did not show any significant relationships with their
adoption of brinjal production technologies. More than two thirds i.e 67 percent of
the brinjal growers faced medium problems, 15 percent faced low and 18 percent
faced high problems. The top of the 5 major problems in order of importance
were: (1) scarcity of quality variety of seed / seedling, fertilizer and pesticide (2)
Marketing problem (3) High input cost (4) Lack of cash money and (5) storage
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
