Abstract:
Eucalyptus is one of the most extensively planted trees in Bangladesh as well as in the
world. The purpose of this study was to determine farmers perception about
Eucalyptus tree cultivation as cropland agroforestry and explore the contribution of
the selected characteristics of the farmers. The selected characteristics were age,
education, family size, total land area, income sources, training exposure, duration of
involvement with eucalyptus cultivation, land use pattern and farmer’s opinion on
prospect of eucalyptus tree cultivation. Data were gathered from randomly selected 60
farmers of fifteen villages of three upazilas named Bogura Sadar, Kahaloo and
Sherpur upazila under Bogura District by using interview schedule. For harmonious
representation from each village, 60 farmers were selected by using a standard
formula. Respondents were selected by using stratified random sampling method.
Stepwise Multiple Regression was used to examine the contribution of the selected
characteristics of the farmers. The findings revealed that majority of the respondents
(40%) of the farmers were felt in poorly favorable perception whereas 28.3 percent in
moderately favorable perception and 31.7 percent in highly favorable perception
towards eucalyptus tree cultivation. Hence, more than half (60%) of farmers had
medium to high perception towards eucalyptus tree cultivation. Stepwise Multiple
Regression exposed that farmer’s opinion on prospect of eucalyptus tree cultivation,
training exposure, total land area and education had significant contribution on
farmer’s perception about eucalyptus tree cultivation. The R2 value indicates the four
independent variables collectively contribute (53.3 %) of the total variation on
farmers’ perception about eucalyptus tree cultivation. It may be concluded that
farmers’ perception about eucalyptus tree cultivation will be increased with the
increase of training exposure and educational level of the respondents.
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 AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
