Abstract:
The objectives of this study were to describe the socio-economic characteristics of the
respondents, to determine the extent of vegetable farmers’ knowledge on beneficial
effect on botanical pesticides for controlling pest ; and to find out the contribution of
selected characteristics of the farmers to their knowledge on beneficial effect of
botanical pesticides for controlling pest in vegetable cultivation. The study was
conducted with randomly selected 101 farmers in Raghunathpur union under Gopalgonj
Sadar upazila of Gopalgonj district. A pre-tested interview schedule was used to collect
data from the respondents during 1 January to 30 January, 2020. Farmer’s knowledge
on beneficial effect of botanical pesticides for controlling pest was the dependent
variable and it was measured on the basis of knowledge scores. Nine selected
characteristics of the respondents considered as the independent variables of the study.
For this study, regression analysis was performed to major the contribution of
independent variables on dependent variable . Majority (64.36 percent) of the
respondents had medium knowledge on beneficial effect of botanical pesticides for
controlling pest in vegetable cultivation. Four characteristics of the farmers i.e.
education,training on pest control ,extension contact and cosmopoliteness had the
significant positive contribution with their knowledge on botanical pesticides for pest
control. Rest five characteristics i.e. age, farm size, annual income from cultivation,
organizational participation and time spends in vegetable farming had no significant
contribution with their knowledge on beneficial effect of botanical pesticides for
controlling pest.
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
