IMPACT OF RICE MILL TOWARDS ENVIRONMENTAL, ECONOMIC AND HEALTH STATUS OF WORKERS IN PABNA DISTRICT

Abstract

The study was conducted in two upazilas namely Pabna sadar and Santhia under Pabna district through a structured questionnaire from 1 August, 2017 to 25 October, 2017 to ascertain the impact of rice mill towards environmental, economic and health status of workers by computing environmental change, changes in income, changes in family assets and changes in health status after involvement with rice mill. About 30 rice mills were selected randomly and 3 workers from each rice mill were taken as population. Findings revealed that about 54.44 percent workers faced medium negative environmental changes, about 56.56 percent workers faced low positive changes in income, about 42.22 percent of the workers could progress their family assets at low scale and about 33.33 percent of the workers faced high negative changes in their health status after involvement with rice mill. Most of the workers employed as seasonal or contract workers and they had no training experience. About 40 percent workers faced high constraints in rice mill. Attempts were also made to describe some of the selected characteristics of the workers and their relationships with the impact of rice mill. Pearson’s correlation co-efficient was used to explore the relationship between the variables. Out of nine independent variables: age, family size, experience as rice mill worker, types of employment contracts, professional training experience, knowledge on rice mill, constrains faced by workers in rice mill had a positive significant relationship with the impact of rice mill towards environmental, economic and health status of the workers.