Abstract:
Women's empowerment is a significant issue all over the world. The study was conducted to
know socioeconomic characters of the household, assess the contribution of women to their
household income and identifying the influencing factors of women’s participation in the
decision-making process. The study was carried out at three villages of Bakhsiganj Upazila
under the district of Jamalpur. Data were collected from 60 rural households applying by
simple random sampling technique with a structured questionnaire. The obtained data were
analyzed by using tabular and different statistical techniques. In the study area, women were
participating in the various decision-making processes regarding agriculture. The multiple
regression analysis showed that women’s income was positively significant to women’s
education, age, farm size, and experience. The results of the MNL model indicate that
farmer’s age, experience, access to agricultural credit, and access to information have a
significant influence on decision-making strategies. Government policy should target
improving farmers’ access to credit, delivering proper information to enhance the facilities
for the women's decision-making process. Women performed different activities regarding
vegetable cultivation like bed preparation, seed sowing, transplanting of seedling, fertilizer
application, irrigation, weeding, insect control, seed collection, and seed preservation. In the
study area, respondents also faced various problems such as lack of quality seeds and
seedlings, lack of required information in time, higher vegetable of inputs, lower market
vegetable of products, lower fertility of homestead land, lack of technical knowledge, lack of
credit, lack of homestead land, insect and disease infestation, cattle and goat destroy the
vegetables, social problems. To reduce their constraints, the study suggested providing
logistic supports such as credit facility, input supply, agricultural extension services, needbased
training,
etc.
in
order
to
increase
their
participation
in
income-generating
activities
and
different
household
decision-making
events.
Description:
A Thesis
Submitted to Department of Development and Poverty Studies under the Faculty of
Agribusiness Management
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka,
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
MASTER OF SCIENCE (MS)
IN
DEVELOPMENT AND POVERTY STUDIES
SEMESTER: JULY-DECEMBER, 2018
