A STUDY ON THE AVAILABILITY OF MEDICINAL PLANTS FOUND IN THE HOMESTEADS OF KALIAKOIR UPAZILA OF GAZIPUR DISTRICT

Abstract

Medicinal plants are known as the beneficial plants form the prehistoric times. Therefore, an investigation was done to know the density, factors of medicinal species plantation by the farmers in the homesteads in Kaliakoir upazila of Gazipur. Information was gathered through a set of questionnaire. 82 no. respondents were randomly selected in four villages of 2 unions. Eleven chose attributes of the homesteaders was taken as autonomous factors. The attributes were age, education, family size, homestead area, plantation area, annual income from medicinal plants, organizational participation, training exposure, environmental awareness, knowledge about medicinal plants and number of medicinal plants. The discoveries in regard of assessment with Bel (2.41%), Desi Neem (1.35%), Sajna (1.25%), Akon (0.73%) and Tulsi (0.72%) was found dominant medicinal species. Young aged (43.9%) people found in number, among the respondents. Most of them completed primary level (53.7%), medium size families (50%), medium (63.4%) homestead area, small (76.8%) plantation area, medium income (81.7%), low organizational participation (58.5%), most of them with low training exposure (50%), medium environmental awareness (39.1%), medium Knowledge (54.9%), medium medicinal plants (62.2%) was observed. There was significant connection between density of medicinal plant with age, education, annual income and Organizational participation, training exposure and number of medicinal plants. Therefore it was found that variables were highly interlinked with density of medicinal plants in homesteads. Further study should be carried out to investigate so that clear and deeper information may found.