Abstract:
The objectives of this study were to describe the selected characteristics of the
farmers; to determine the extent of use of best management practices by the farmers
and to explore the contributions of the selected individual characteristics of the
farmers with their use of best management practices. The study was conducted in two
villages of Tetuljhora union under Savar upazila of Dhaka district. Data were
collected by using interview schedule from the randomly selected 104 respondents
during 15 July to 15 August, 2019. Descriptive statistics, multiple regression was used
for analysis. Majority (70.2 percent) of the respondents had medium best management
practices while 22.1 percent had higher and 7.7 percent had lower best management
practices. Among nine selected farmers’ characteristics, level of education, extension
contact, agricultural training and time spent in farming of the respondents had
significant contribution with their use of best management practices. The remaining
characteristics of the farmers, age, farm size, distance from home to local market,
annual family income and experience in farming had no significant contribution with
their use of best management practices. The findings of the study indicated that
farmers’ use of best management practices has scope to increase. It is concluded that
use of best management practices can be increased through increase the level of
education, extension contact, agricultural training and time spent in farming.
Description:
A Thesis
Submitted to the Faculty of Agriculture,
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka,
in Partial fulfillment of the requirements
for the degree of
MASTER OF SCIENCE (MS) IN
AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION
SEMESTER: JULY-DECEMBER, 2018