Abstract:
ABSTRACT
Proper selection and utilization of machinery effortlessly would boost up and
optimize farm production by minimizing unnecessary breakdown/failure, energy and
power losses and mismatching of implements to prime movers. The purpose of the
study was to describe the selected socio-economic profile of the farmers; to determine
the extent of farmers’ use of agricultural machineries; and to explore the contribution
among each of the selected characteristics of farmers with their use of agricultural
machineries. The study was undertaken purposively in Sundarganj upazila under
Gaibandha district. Validated and well-structured interview schedule was used to
collect data from 109 farmers during 1
st
December to 31
th
December, 2020.
Descriptive statistics, multiple regressions were used for the analysis of collected
data. The majority (53.21 %) of the respondents had medium knowledge followed by
21.10 percent had low knowledge on agricultural machineries and 25.69 percent of
the farmers had high knowledge on agricultural machineries. Among 8 selected
characteristics of the farmers 3 characteristics namely, agricultural extension contact,
and education had positive significant contribution with their knowledge on
agricultural machineries but constrained faced by the farmer in use of agricultural
machineries had negative significant contribution with their knowledge on agricultural
machineries.
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, 2020
