Abstract:
Vegetable cultivation is a profitable farming practice in respect of Bangladesh
although farmers often face various problems in tradit ional cultivation. The purposes
of the study were to determine the extent of problem faced by the farmers in vegetable
cultivation; to compare the severity among the problem faced by the farmers in
vegetables cultivation; to describe some selected characteristics of the vegetable
farmers and to explore the relationships between the selected characteristics of the
vegetable farmers and their extent of problem faced in vegetables cultivation. The
study was undertaken purposively in Sarishabari upazila of Jamalpur district.
Validated and well-structured interview schedule was used to collect data from 103
vegetable growers during 1st June to 30
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, June 2022. The highest proportion
(71.84%) of the vegetable farmers faced medium problem faced as compare to 16.51
percent faced low problem and 11.65 percent faced high problem in vegetable
cultivation. On the basis of Problem Faced Index (PFI), it was observed that “High cost of
labour” ranked first followed by “High cost of seed fertilizer and pesticides” and “Lack of
knowledge about market information” were the least problem faced by the farmers in
vegetable cultivation. Pearson’s Product Moment Correlat ion that education, annual
family income, income from vegetable cultivation, experience on vegetable
cultivation, training exposure and knowledge on vegetable cultivation technologies of
the farmers had negative significant relationship with their problem faced in vegetable
cultivation. Beside these, rest four characteristics of the farmers (age, family size,
vegetable cultivation land and media exposure) had no significant relationship with
their problem faced in vegetable cultivation. This study could be helpful for
formulation of principle and implementation to eradicate the problems in vegetable
cultivation and a reference for future study.
Description:
A Thesis
Submitted to the Department of Agricultural Extension and Information System
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka
In partial fulfilment of the requirements
for the degree of
MASTER OF SCIENCE (MS)
IN
AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AND INFORMATION SYSTEM
