Abstract:
he main purpose of the study was to determine poverty alleviation of the credit
beneficiaries by the Department of Youth Development. Attempts were also made to
relationships between the selected characteristics of the beneficiaries with their
Barisal district. Pearson's correlation co-efficient was used to determine the
sample of I 00 beneficiaries of the six villages of two unions of Sadar upazila of
determining the poverty alleviation of the beneficiaries. Data were collected from a
and utilizing the credit. Twenty income sources were considered in this study for
poverty alleviation and to identify the problems faced by the beneficiaries in receiving
determine ten selected characteristics of the beneficiaries and their relationship with
poverty alleviation. Thirty seven percent of the respondents had low poverty
alleviation while almost equal proportion (35 percent) of the beneficiaries had
medium and 28 percent of the respondents had high poverty alleviation. Beneficiaries'
education, training exposure. duration of involvement of DYD, credit received,
organizational participation, cosmopoliteness and attitude towards DYD had positive
significant relationship with poverty alleviation while family size had negative
significant relationship with the poverty alleviation. The other characteristics such as
age and farm size of the beneficiaries were not significantly related with their poverty
alleviation. According to problem faced index (PFI), 'new loan is not issued until
final repayment of instalments' ranked first fol lowed by 'insufficient amount of credit
shortage of grace period'.
as per demand' and the 'total amount of credit could not be used properly due to
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
