Abstract:
The study was to about extent of adaptation strategies of farmers’ who were
struggling to adapt salinity effects in agriculture day by day. The purpose of the
study was to describe the socio-economic profile of the salinity affected farmers in
the study area; to determine farmers’ extent of adaptation strategies towards salinity
effects in agriculture and to explore contributing relationship between the selected
characteristics of the salinity affected farmers and their extent of adaptation
strategies towards salinity effects in agriculture. The study was undertaken
purposively in Kalapara upazila under Patuakhali district. Validated and wellstructured
interview
schedule
(questionnaire)
was
used
to
collect
data
from
131
farmers
during
20
th
February to 30
th
March 2016. Data analysis was done using
simple and inferential statistical tools such as frequency counts, mean, standard
deviation, and multiple regressions. The findings showed that majority of the farmers
(48.1 percent) had medium level adaptation, 28.2 percent of them had high level
adaptation while 23 percent had low level adaptation strategies towards salinity
effects in agriculture. The results also showed that farmers’ age, educational
background, farming experience, agricultural extension contact and farmer’s
category were significant factors for farmers’ extent of adaptation strategies towards
salinity effects in agriculture; and within this, age, agricultural extension contact and
farmer’s category were the most significant contributing factors. It is concluded that,
the study farmers had opportunity to enhance their knowledge through proper school
or mass education that made them enthusiastic and interested to take risk, and
motivated them to come out from traditional behavior and practices in agriculture.
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