AGRICULTURAL PROBLEM CONFRONTATION BY CHARLAND FARMERS OF JAMUNA RIVER

Abstract

The mam focus of the present study was to identify the agricultural problem confrontation by the charland farmers of Jamuna River and to explore the relationship between the selected characteristics with their problem confrontation and other related matters in charland. The study was conducted in purposively selected village Mali para of Pugal diga union under sharishabari upazilla of J amalpur didtrict. The population of the study included 504 farm family heads. Data were collected personally by the researcher himself from the sample by using interview schedule during the period from March 2 and completed on March 25. Problem confrontation of the farmers in charland was the main focus of this study. In this study, problem confrontation on agricultural activities referred to extent of problem confrontation faced by the farmers in eleven selected aspects. In this study flooding, academic opportunity and market facilities are big problem Problem index (PI) was developed to measure the dependent variable. Problem indices (Pl) of farmer on 11 items in agricultural problem confrontation ranged from 96 to 278 against a possible range of 0 to 300. Pl of 3 problems exceeded 200 and 3 problems were having Pl over 150. However, the top three problems were: i) Flood problem (278) ii) Lack of market facilities (for sales, surplus products, and purchase) (274). iii) Lack of academic opportunities (School/Collage). There were also other three problems with Pl over 150. The lowest score was 96 in rank order. Highest proportion (64 percent) of the farmers had medium overall problem confrontation in char land while 24 percent having high problem and 12 percent low problem confrontation the mean and standard deviation were 18.45 and 3.26 respectively .. Correlation analysis indicated that education, farm size, annual income, agricultural knowledge, extension contact, innovativeness of the farmers showed significantly negative relationship with the farmers' problem confrontation. On the other hand age, agricultural experience, organizational participation did not show any significant relationship with their problem confrontation in char land.