Abstract:
The study was undertaken to assess the intluence of the farmers' characteristics on their participation
in livestock and poultry development activities of BAUEC. Random sampling method was used to
collect the data through personal interview method from 120 farmers of nine villages of Mymensingh
district. Significant positive relationship was found between age, family size, farm size, annual
income, attitude towards BAUEC and agricultural knowledge of the respondents and their
participation in livestock and poultry development programme. About two fifth (40.80%) of the
respondents had low participation, 28.30% had medium and 30.900;., had high participation in
livestock and poultry development activities of BAUEC.
