Abstract:
Livestock (goat, poultry and cattle) are domesticated animals raised in an
agricultural setting to produce commodities such as food, fiber, and labor. The
study examined the attitude of rural women towards livestock rearing and
estimated the contribution of the selected characteristics of the rural women to
their attitude towards livestock rearing. Data were collected from 118 rural
women of Magura sadar upazila from January 20 to February 20, 2017.
Descriptive statistics, multiple regression were used for analysis. Most of the
rural women (66.1 %) had moderately favorable attitude while 13.6 and 20.3
percent of them had highly and poorly favorable attitude towards livestock
rearing. Among the variables- education, livestock rearing experience, usages
of mass media, training exposure, livestock management practices, financial
facilities, and knowledge on livestock rearing were significant contributor and
provided 63.1 percent contribution on rural women’s attitude towards livestock
rearing. Majority (71.2 %) rural women faced medium problems on livestock
rearing, while lack of grazing land positioned the 1
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and environmental hazards
in last position regarding problems on livestock rearing. Based on the findings,
it is recommended that respective authorities i.e., DLS, DAE and NGOs should
implement and popularize women based projects on a massive scale for
increasing livestock rearing.
Description:
A Thesis
Submitted to the Faculty of Agriculture,
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka,
in Partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
MASTER OF SCIENCE (MS)
IN
AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION
