ADOPTION OF BROILER PRODUCTION PRACTICES BY THE FARMERS

Abstract

The objectives of the study were to assess the extent of adoption of broiler production practices by the farmers and to explore the contribution of the selected characteristics of the farmers to their adoption of broiler production practices. The study was conducted in nine villages of three unions of Boalmari upazila under Faridpur district. Data for this study were collected from 103 broiler farmers by using an interview schedule from 2 January, 2018 to 5 February, 2018. Descriptive statistics and stepwise multiple regression were used for analysis of the data. The findings revealed that about half (49.5%) of broiler farmers had high adoption compared to 22.3% and 28.2% had medium and low adoption of broiler production practices respectively. Among the influential variables, knowledge on broiler production alone contribute 92.2% of the variation where Feed Consumption Ratio (FCR), time spent and Benefit Cost Ratio (BCR) contribute 2.0%, 0.9% and 0.2% variation respectively to the adoption of broiler production practices by the farmers. Based on the findings, it is recommended that the policy makers should give emphasis to increase the knowledge of the broiler farmers so that they could spent more time to use good quality of broiler feed having high FCR, ultimately that yield high BCR in broiler production.