YIELD PERFORMANCE OF SWEET POTATO CULTIVATION AT FARMERS’ FIELD

Abstract

The objectives of this study were to assess and describe some selected characteristics of the sweet potato farmers, to determine the extent of performance of farmers on sweet potato cultivation; to explore the relationship between each of the selected characteristics of the farmers with their performance of sweet potato cultivation, to compare severity of the problem of the performance of different sweet potato varieties and to compare the performance of different sweet potato varieties. The study was conducted with randomly selected 102 farmers in four upazila of four districts. A pretested

interview schedule was used to collect data from the respondents during February 20 to March 20, 2019. Yield performance of different sweet potato varieties was the dependent variable and the dependent variable was measured by variable was measured on basis of yield tons per hectare. The extent of performance of farmers on sweet potato cultivation was measured with performance. Performance of different sweet potato varieties and the selected eleven characteristics of the respondents relationship with the independent variables of the study. Majority (61.8 percent) of the sweet potato had medium performance and 20.6 percent of them had low performance. Five characteristics of the respondent’s viz. education, training exposure, cosmopoliteness, extension contact and knowledge on sweet potato cultivation had significant positive relationship with performance of different sweet potato varieties. But age, family size, land under sweet potato cultivation, benefit cost ratio (BCR), commercialization and problems faced in sweet potato cultivation had non-significant relationship with their performance of sweet potato cultivation.