Abstract:
The main objectives of this study were to determine the level of food insecurity condition faced by the rural
people of South Sadar Upazila of Comilla District and to explore the relationship between food insecurity of the
respondents and their selected characteristics. The study was conducted with randomly selected 120 rural
households of three villages namely, Dumuria, Lohipur and Dayapur of Chowara union under the South Sadar
upazila of Comilla District. Family head of each of the farm families was treated as the respondent. Pearson's
product moment correlation co-efficient (r) was computed to examine the relationship between the variables.
Food insecurity faced by the rural people was the dependent variable and ten selected characteristics of the
respondents constituted. the independent variables of this study, More than two- thirds (66.67%) of the
respondents were found to be in food secured condition followed by low insecured (20%) and medium food
insecured (13.33%). None faced high food insecured condition. Correlation (r) between food insecurity and
characteristics of the respondents showed that education, farm size, annual family income and daily time
allocation in farm work of the respondents had negative significant relationship, while family size and daily
dietary needs of the family had positive significant relationship with food insecurity.
