INVOLVEMENT OF RURAL WOMEN IN HOME GARDENING PRACTICES IN SDS AREA OF SHARIATPUR DISTRICT

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.