Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to determine the adoption of modern practices by
the farmers for rice cultivation and to explore the contribution of the selected
characteristics of the farmers to their adoption of modern practices by the
farmers for rice cultivation. The selected characteristics were age, education,
farm size, family size, annual family income, organizational participation,
innovativeness, extension contact, training exposure and rice production
knowledge. Data were gathered from 107 farmers of two villages namely
Noapara and Kuraniarchor of Modhukhali upazila under Faridpur district by
using a pre evaluated interview schedule during the period from 15 March to
30 June, 2015. Descriptive analysis, stepwise multiple regression were used for
data analysis. More than half of the respondents (56.1%) had medium adoption
where 15.9 percent had low adoption and only 24.3 percent had high adoption
of modern practices for rice cultivation. There was 3.7 percent respondents
were in no adoption of selected modern practices for rice cultivation. Among
the influential variables respondents’ education, extension contact, age were
significant contributor and provided 47.0 percent contribution on modern
practices for rice cultivation.
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
