FARMERS’ SATISFACTION ON LIVESTOCK EXTENSION SERVICES

Abstract

The main purpose of this study was to determine farmers’ satisfaction on livestock extension services and to explore the relationship between each of the selected characteristics of the livestock farmers like age, level of education, farming experience, livestock farm area, annual family income, percentage of income from livestock, daily time spend in livestock farm, training exposure, extension media contact and innovativeness with their satisfaction on livestock extension services. Data were gathered from randomly selected 110 farmers of two unions (Panchkhola, Rasti) of Madaripur sadar upazila under Madaripur district by using personal interview schedule during the period from 10 th October to 25 th November, 2019. Pearson’s Product Moment Co-efficient of Correlation was used to examine the relationship of each of the selected characteristics of the farmers and their satisfaction on livestock extension services in Bangladesh. The findings revealed that 62.73% of the respondents had low satisfaction, while 31.82% had medium satisfaction and 5.45% had high satisfaction on livestock extension services. Correlation co-efficient indicated that among the ten selected experimental variables, only five namely, farming experience, livestock farm area, income from livestock, extension media contact and innovativeness of the farmers had significant positive relationship with their satisfaction on livestock extension services. The rest five variables namely, age, level of education, annual family income, daily time spend for livestock farming and training exposure of the farmers did not show any significant relationship with their satisfaction on livestock extension services. Based on the findings, it may be concluded that government, non-government and private livestock extension providing organizations of Bangladesh should review their extension services to take appropriate action for increasing farmers satisfaction on livestock extension services.