FOOD INSECURITY FACED BY THE RURAL PEOPLE OF COMILLA SADAR UPAZILA

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.