Abstract:
The main purpose of this study was to determine the farmer‟s knowledge on food
safety and explore the relationship of the selected characteristics of the growers on
their knowledge on food safety. The selected characteristics were age, education,
family size, farm size, annual family income, training exposure, extension contact,
innovativeness and cosmopoliteness. Data were gathered from proportionally and
randomly selected 110 respondents (farmers) of two villages of Kadir para union
of Shreepur upazila under Magura district by using a pretested interview schedule
during the period of 1
st
September to 30 October, 2018. Apart from descriptive
statistical methods, Pearson's Product Moment Correlation Co-efficient analysis
was used in order to analyze the data. Findings indicated that the majority
(59.09%) of the respondents had medium knowledge on food safety, 32.91% had
high knowledge on food safety and 8% had low knowledge on food safety. Out of
nine selected characteristics of the respondents, education, farm size, extension
contact and innovativeness had positive significant relationship with their
knowledge on food safety. The rest of the variables namely: age, family size,
annual family income, training exposure and cosmopoliteness did not show any
significant relationships with their knowledge on food safety.
Description:
A Thesis
Submitted to the Department of Agricultural Extension and Information System
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka
In partial fulfillment of the requirements
for the degree of
MASTER OF SCIENCE (MS)
IN
AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AND INFORMATION SYSTEM
SEMESTER: JULY- DECEMBER, 2017
