Abstract:
The specific objective of the study was to determine the women's requirements for
capacity building in post harvest activities of vegetables. Attempts were also made to
determine ten selected characteristics of the women and their relationship with
requirements for capacity building in post harvest activities of vegetables and to find
out the problems faced by the women in using improved post harvest technologies of
vegetables. Data were collected from a sample of 100 women vegetables growers of
the two villages of Roailbari union of Kendua upazila of Netrokona district. Pearson's
correlation co-efficient was used to determine the relationships between the selected
characteristics of the women with their requirements for capacity building. The
highest proportion (63 percent) of the respondents had high extent of requirements
while 34 percent of them had medium and only 3 percent of them had low extent of
requirements for capacity building. Women's farm size, annual family income and
use of post harvest technology showed significant negative relationship with their
requirement's for capacity building in post harvest activities of vegetables but credit
received and knowledge on vegetables production were positively significant. On the
other hand. the rest of characteristics viz, age, education, dependency ratio of the
family. decision making capacity and training received did not show any significant
relationship with their requirements for capacity building in post harvest activities of
vegetables. According to problem faced index (FF1), 'Lack of knowledge on post
harvest activities of vegetables' was ranked first followed by 'Distance from sale
centre' and 'Lack of marketing facility' while 'Low access to communication media'
and 'Others' ranked last.
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
