Abstract:
The major thrust of this study were to determine and describe the socio-economic
determinants of sunflower growers, determine the extent of adoption of different
practices of sunflower by the growers, explore the contribution of the socio-economic
determinants of adoption of different practices of sunflower by the growers. Data
were collected from randomly selected 113 sunflower farmers of five blocks of five
union under Patuakhali sadar upazila. The selected five (05) blocks namely
Bollovpur, Birajala, Morichbunia, kewabunia, Bara Auliapur by using an interview
schedule during 17 September to 25 September, 2018. The highest proportion (69.1
percent) of the sunflower growers fell under the medium adoption category, while
21.2 percent had high adoption and 9.7 percent had low adoption of sunflower
production technologies. Thus, an overwhelming majority (90.3 %) of the sunflower
farmers had medium to high adoption of improved sunflower production
technologies. Among the ten hypothesized relationships, five (5) variables namely
knowledge, education, family size, extension media contact and organizational
participation were found significantly contribution to the adoption of improved
practices of sunflower production (Table 4.13) while rest of the variables showed no
significant contribution. All the factors jointly contribute 73.7% of the variance of the
adoption (R
2
= 0.737). Which were; age, farm size, land under sunflower cultivation,
profitability from sunflower production, training in sunflower production technology
had no significant contribution.
Description:
A thesis
Submitted to the Department of Agricultural Extension and Information System
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN
AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION & INFORMATION SYSTEM