AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY TEACHERS' ATTITUDE TOWARDS AGROFORESTRY PROMOTION IN BANGLADESH

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.