PERCEPTION OF CITY GARDENER TOWARDS ROOFTOP GARDENS FOR CLIMATE REGENERATION

Abstract

The main purpose of this study was to determine the perception of city gardener towards rooftop gardens for climate regeneration and to explore the relationship of the selected characteristics of the growers with their perception towards rooftop gardens for climate regeneration. The selected characteristics were age, education, family size, rooftop garden size, annual family income, training exposure, extension media contact, knowledge on rooftop gardening and problems on rooftop gardening. A list comprised a total of 713 respondents in the study area (27 and 28 No. Ward, Mohammadpur, Dhaka). These respondents constituted the population of this study. Fifteen percent (107 respondents) of the population were randomly selected as representative sample by using a Table of Random Numbers (Kerlinger, 1973). Thus, 107 farm family head constituted the sample of the study. Data were collected during the period of 1 st December 2019 to 28 February, 2020. Pearson Product Moment Correlation test was used to explore the relationships among the concerned variables. Majority (61.68%) of the respondents had medium perception towards rooftop gardens for climate regeneration, 31.78 percent had high perception towards rooftop gardens for climate regeneration and only 6.54 percent had low perception towards rooftop gardens for climate regeneration. Out of nine selected characteristics of the respondents age, education, annual family income, training exposure, extension media contact and knowledge on rooftop gardening had positive significant relationship with their perception towards rooftop gardens for climate regeneration. And problems on rooftop gardening had negative significant relationship with their perception towards rooftop gardens for climate regeneration. No significant relationship was found with respondents family size and rooftop garden size.