Abstract:
The purpose of the study was to have an understanding on the communication
sources of the rural women regarding agricultural activities, the locus of the
study was the involvement of rural women in agricultural activities in Sur;vamani
union tinder Rauphal upazila of Patuakhali district. Attempts were also made to
detenninc and describe the selected characteristics of the rural women and to
determine the relationship of the selected characteristics of the rural women with
their use of communication sources. Data were collected from a random sample of
IOU rural women of two selected village, namely Ramnagar and Nurainpur of
Patuakhali district. Data revealed that more than half (59%) ol the respondent had
low use of communication sources in their agricultural activities as compare to
33% having medium and only 8% use of high communication sources. The
characteristics such as age and time spent in agricultural work had no relationship
with their use of communication sources. The other characteristics such as level of
education, family size. annual litwily income. ttrm size, organizational
participatioi't and agricultural knowledge of the rural women had signi ñcant
positive relationship with their use of communication sources in agricultural
activities. Utilization of ten technologies by the rural women, the communication
sources score ranged from 12 to 45 against the possible score
C) to IOU to utilize
these technology for their agricultural activity. It indicates very poor use of'
communication sources by the rural women in the study area.
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
