Abstract:
The purposes of the study were to identify the Farmers' knowledge on
environmental degradation due to use of agro-chemicals and to determine their
selected characteristics, namely education, farm size, annual income, family
size, farming experience, organizational participation, cosmopoliteness,
innovativeness, and extension contact. The study also explored the relationship
between the selected characteristics of the farmers and their knowledge on
environmental degradation due to use of agro-chemicals. The study was
conductec among the farmers of three villages of Kashkarara union of
p :mdanga Upazila under Chuadanga district. Data were collected ['rum a
sample of randomly selected 118 farmers out of a total population of 987. The data
were collected through personal interview by using an interview schedule
during the period from the 6" April to 5th May; 2010. Appropriate scales were
developed in order to measure the variables. Pearson's Product Moment
Correlation Co-efficient (r) was computed to examine the relationship between the
concerned variables.
Findings revealed that over half (60.17 percent) of the respondents had low level of
knowledge on environmental degradation due to use of agro-chemicals as
compared to 33.90 percent medium and 5.93 percent high knowledge.
Correlation analysis indicated that seven characteristics of the farmers namely
education, farm size, annual income, organizational participation;
Cosmopoliteness, innovativeness, and extension contact had sigjtiflcant
positive relationships with their knowledge on environmental degradation due
to use of agro-chemicals. On the other hand, family size and farming
VII'
experience of the respondents had no relationship with their knowledge on
environmental degradation due to use of agro-chernicals.
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
