ADOPTION OF BRINJAL PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES BY THE FARMERS OF TWO SELECTED VILLAGES OF ISLAMPUR UPAZILA IN JAMALPUR DISTRICT

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