FARMERS-EXTENSION WORKERS RELATIONSHIP IN A SELECTED UNiON OF NARAIL DISTRICT

Abstract

The main objectives of the study were to determine the farmers-extension workers relationship of' the farmers and to explore the relationship between farmers-extension workers relationship of the farmers and their selected characteristics. The study was conducted at Salamabad union of Kalia Upazilla under Narail District. Data were collected from a sample of 116 farmers of five villages by using pre-tested interview schedules during June 14 to June 29, 2009. Farmers-Extension workers relationship was measured on the basis of its three dimensions viz, communication, empathy and credibility of the extension workers separately. However, the overall farmers-extension workers relationship was found out by averaging the scores of these three dimensions. it was found that the overall farmers-extension workers relationship scores ranged from 8.66 to 20.66 with mean and standard deviation of 15.11 and 1.85 respectively. The majority (56.0 1%) of the farmers opined that they had medium relationship with extension workers compared to 39.97 percent with low relationship and only 4.02 percent high relationship. Pearson Product Moment Correlation co-efficient was computed in order to find out the extent of relationship between the dependent variable and independent variables. Competition with the fellow farmers and annual family income showed significant positive relationship and knowledge on agriculture showed significant negative relationship with Farmers-Extension workers relationship.