Abstract:
The prime objective of the study was to find out the involvement of rural women
in home gardening practices in SDS area of Shariatpur district. Appropriate scale
was developed to measure the involvement effectively Involvement of rural
women in home gardening
practices
was measured by computing involvement iii
II selected operations and production involvement in 14 different vegetables.
Attempt was also made to explore the relationship between the involvement of
rural women th home gardening practices with their selected characteristics. The
characteristics were age, education, family size, annual family income, knowledge
on homestead gardening, training experience, use of information Sources,
cosmopol iteness, organizational panic ipation and attitude towards homestead
gardening. Data were collected from 3 November to 10 December. 2007 from 102
farmers which were randomly selected firorn Naodoba union of Zanjira Upazila
under Shariatpur district. About thirty one percent had low involvement where
68.63
percent had medium involvement in home gardening practices. Significant
relationship was found with rural women age, education, annual family income,
Knowledge on home gardening. Use of information sources and Attitude towards
home gardening. No relationship was found with rural women family size, training
experience, cosmopoliteness. and organizational participation.
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
