Abstract:
The purposes of this study were to determine the farmers adoption of dairy management
practices and to explore the relationship of each of the selected characteristics of the dairy
farmers with their adoption of dairy management practices. Data were gathered from 85
dairy farmers of nine villages of three union of Sitakunda Upazila under Chattogram
district by using a pretested interview schedule. The findings revealed that about twothird
(65.8 percent) of the dairy farmers had medium adoption of dairy management
practices, while 2.4 percent had low adoption and 31.8 percent had high adoption. Hence
above two third (68.2 percent) of the dairy farmers had low to medium adoption of dairy
management practices. Pearson’s product moment correlation revealed that dairy farm
size, number of dairy cattle, annual income from dairy farm, knowledge on dairy farm
management practices and training on dairy cattle management of the farmers had
positive and significant relationship with their adoption of dairy farm management
practices. Dairy farmers faced higher problems in ‘inadequacy of capital for purchase of
milch cow’ followed by ‘high rate of interest for credit’ and ‘lack of technical facilities’.
From the findings, it is concluded that it is essential to increase the adoption of dairy
management practices of the farmers by providing advisory services and supports from
different Government and Non-Government advisory service providing organizations.
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
