Abstract:
The main purpose of the study was to determine and describe farmers’ attitude
towards IPM practices in vegetable cultivation and to explore the relationship
between farmers’ attitude with their twelve selected characteristics. The study
was conducted in two villages of Shombhag union under Dhamrai upazila of
Dhaka district. Data were collected by using an interview schedule from the
randomly selected 100 respondents during 2 May to 25 May, 2015. Pearson’s
Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (r) was computed to explore the
relationship between the selected characteristics of the farmers and their
attitude towards IPM practices. The findings revealed that the highest
proportion (79%) of the respondents had unfavourable attitude, while only 21
percent had favorable attitude towards IPM practices in vegetable cultivation.
Among twelve selected characteristics, education, time spent in vegetable field,
organizational participation, knowledge on IPM practices in vegetable
cultivation, contact with IPM club and FFS, communication media exposure
and training exposure had significant positive relationship with the attitude of
the farmers towards IPM practices in vegetable cultivation. On the other hand,
age had negative but significant relationship. Farm size, land under vegetable
cultivation, annual family income and annual income from vegetable
cultivation had no significant relationship with the attitude of the farmers
towards IPM practices in vegetable cultivation.
Description:
A thesis
Submitted to the Faculty of Agriculture
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka-1207,
in partial fulfillment of the requirements
for the degree of
MASTER OF SCIENCE (MS)
IN
AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION
SEMESTER: JULY-DECEMBER, 2014
