Abstract:
The objectives of this study were to describe the selected socio-economic
characteristics of the farmers, determine innovativeness of the farmers to use modern
agricultural machineries and explore the relationships between farmers’ selected socioeconomic
characteristics and their innovativeness of using agricultural machineries.
Data were collected from ninety-one (91) randomly selected farmers from Balighata
union of Panchbibi upazila under Joypurhat district by using structured interview
schedule. It is showed that slightly above than three-fourth (78.0 percent) of the farmers
had medium innovativeness as compared to 12.1 and 9.9 percent having low and high
innovativeness respectively on modern agricultural machineries. Co-efficient of
correlation (r) analysis revealed that farmers’ farm size, area under agricultural
mechanization, annual family income, training experience, extension media contact and
number of machineries used had significant positive relationship with their
innovativeness. However, age, education, family size and organizational participation
had no significant relationships to their innovativeness of using modern agricultural
machineries. The findings may help to formulate policies towards increase of the use
of machineries in modernizing agricultural farming practice.
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
