KNOWLEDGE OF FARMERS ON MODERN AGRICULTURAL MACHINERIES

Abstract

Bangladesh is a agriculture based country. Most of the people of our country is related with agriculture. But due to low knowledge on agricultural operation or modern agricultural machineries operation the farmer faced huge loss on crop production. That’s why the modern agricultural machineries need in agriculture sector to increase crop production. The modern machineries use in agricultural operation is called mechanization. The purpose of the study was to describe the selected socioeconomic characteristic of the farmers; to determine the extent of farmers’ knowledge on agricultural machineries; and to explore the relationship of the selected characteristics of farmers on their knowledge on modern agricultural machineries. The study was undertaken purposely in Roumari Upazila under Kurigram district. Validated and well-structured interview schedule was used to collect data from 110 farmers. Data were collected by a pre tested interview schedule during 16 jun 2022 to 15 july 2022. Simple and direct questions with different scales were used to obtain information. Descriptive statistics, multiple corelation were used for the analysis of collected data. The majority 47.72 percent of

the respondents had low knowledge followed by 21.81 percent had high knowledge

and

35.45 percent of the farmers had medium knowledge on agricultural machineries. Among 10 selected characteristics of the farmers 6 characteristics namely, education, quantity of modern machinery, attitude of farmers towards using modern agricultural machinery, annual family income, training exposure and extension media contact, had positive significant relationship with their knowledge on modern agricultural machineries but rest of four namely age, farm size, experience in farming, organizational participation had no significant relationship with their knowledge on modern agricultural machinery. Findings leads to conclusion that farmers’ socioeconomic characteristics are important for acquiring knowledge on modern agricultural machineries and concerned authority should consider these characteristics to take necessary steps for improving knowledge of farmers on modern agricultural machineries.