Abstract:
Agroforcstrv is a new approach in our country. although it has been being
practiced in the tropics from decades. Our farmers unknowingly and
unconsciously practice agroforestry. Agroforestry adoption at farm level as
well is at research level is still a swp behind practice in our country. Major
focus of this study was to assess agriculturat university teachers' attitude
towards agroforestry promotion in Bangladesh and also to explore relationship
between each of the selected characteristics of agricultural university teachers
and their attitude towards agroforestry
,
promotion in Bangladesh. Data were
collected from 80 university teachers by face- to- face interviewing with the
help of structural interview schedule during November 2013 to February 2014.
Descriptive statistics were employed to describe the selected characteristics of
the selected characteristics of the university teachers including their attitude
towards agroforestry promotion in Bangladesh. Co-efficient of eorrclatiort was
employed to explore the relationship between teachers' attitude towards
agroforestry promotion and each of their selected characteristics. The findings
revealed that overwhelming majority (91.250
/0) of the teachers had favorable
attitude towards agroforestry promotion in Bangladesh. while rest of them had
unfavorable or neutral attitude. The co-efficient of correlation shows that
university teachers educational status, training experience and participation in
seminar, symposium, conferences. workshops etc. had positive significant
relationship, white their age, teaching experience, daily use of internet and
social participation had no significant relationship with their attitude towards
agroforestry promotion in Bangladesh.
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
AGROFORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
