Abstract:
The research examines the status of farmers’ knowledge, attitude and adoption regarding
saline tolerant rice varieties and to explore the relationship of the selected characteristics
of the farmers with their knowledge, attitude and adoption regarding saline tolerant rice
varieties. The methodology of this study is an integration of quantitative and qualitative
methods based on data collection in Chadpur, Kamorpur and Dorista of Dhaliur union of
Satkhira sadar upazila. Data were collected from 113 saline tolerant rice farmers from
January18 to February 20, 2017. Descriptive statistics and Pearson product moment
correlation (r) were used for analysis. Most of the farmers (54.9 percent) belong to
medium knowledge, 20.4 percent had low knowledge and 24.8 percent had high
knowledge on saline tolerant rice varieties. Most of the farmers (61.9 percent) had
favorable attitude towards saline tolerant rice varieties. The highest (48.7 percent)
proportion of rice farmers belong to the group of high adoption and the lowest proportion
(6.2 percent) of them had medium adoption of saline tolerant rice varieties. Among the
influential variables- level of education, training experience of farmers had significant
positive relationship with their knowledge on saline tolerant rice varieties and their
attitude towards saline tolerant rice varieties. Agricultural extension media contact of
farmers had significant positive relationship and problem faced in saline tolerant rice
cultivation by the farmers had significant negative relationship with their attitude towards
saline tolerant rice cultivation and adoption of saline tolerant rice varieties.
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
