Abstract:
Vegetables play a very important role in human nutrition as source of fiber, trace minerals,
vitamins, carbohydrates and proteins and help to prevent various diseases resulting from
malnutrition and unbalanced diet. Along with the nutritional benefits, home-gardens provide
potential food security to the house holder. The home-garden vegetables form an integral part of
the family diet. Although every member of the family has some contribution, the major labour
input was contributed by women. The purpose of the study was to find out the extent of problems
faced by the rural women in homestead vegetable cultivation and to explore the relationships of
the rural women’s selected characteristics with their problems faced in homestead vegetable
cultivation. The study was conducted in two selected villages Baikunthapur and Kasalbari under
Akcha union of Thakurgaon Sadar upazilla under Thakurgaon district. Data were collected from
a proportionately random sample of 74 rural women by using an interview schedule during the
period from March, 2019 to May, 2019. The majority (62.2 percent) of the rural women faced
medium problem in homestead vegetable cultivation, while 24.3 percent faced low and 13.5
percent faced high problem in homestead vegetable cultivation. Pearson's Product Moment Coefficient
of
Correlation
was
used
to
examine
the
relationship
of
the
selected
characteristics
of
the
rural
women with their problems faced in homestead vegetable cultivation. Correlation analysis
indicated that among nine selected characteristics of the rural women, four namely homestead
area, farm size, knowledge on homestead vegetable cultivation and uses of information sources
had significant negative relationship with their problem faced in homestead vegetable cultivation
and the rest five characteristics namely, age, education, family size, annual family income,
organizational involvement had no significant relationship with their problem faced in
homestead vegetable cultivation. On the basis of Problem Faced Index, it was observed that
“lack of homestead area'' ranked first followed by " Insect and disease infestation, Cattle and
goat destroy the vegetables, Lack of technical knowledge, Lack of quality seeds and seedlings
were major four problems in homestead vegetable cultivation.
Description:
A Thesis
Submitted to the Faculty of Agribusiness Management
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka-1207
In partial fulfillment of the requirements
for the degree of
MASTER OF SCIENCE
IN
DEVELOPMENT AND POVERTY STUDIES
SEMESTER: JULY-DECEMBER, 2018
