Abstract:
The main objective of this study was to assess the extent of attitude of the
farmers towards jute cultivation and to explore the relationship between the
selected characteristics of the farmers and their attitude towards jute cultivation.
Babuganj upazila under Barisal district was purposively selected for the study.
Among six union of the babuganj upazila, Rahamotpur union was selected
randomly for this study. There were fifteen village in the union from which five
villages were randomly selected for the study. From 1104 farmers of these five
selected villages 110 farmers were selected as the sample by using proportionate
random sampling method. Data were collected personally through interview
schedule during 15
th
November to 15
ix
th
December 2013. Attitude of the farmers
were determined by using a five point Likert type scale. Pearson's product
moment coefficient of correlation (r) was computed to explore the relationships
between the selected characteristics of the farmers and their attitude towards jute
cultivation. The study revealed that half (50%) of the respondents had favorable
attitude towards jute cultivation compared to 48.2% respondents had negative
attitude while only 1.8% had neutral attitude towards jute cultivation. Findings
revealed that among twelve characteristics age, farm size, jute cultivation area,
training received, jute cultivation experience, use of jute cultivation technique,
jute cultivation knowledge, annual family income and extension media contact
had positive significant relationship with attitude towards jute cultivation while
problem faced in jute cultivation had negative significant relationship with
attitude towards jute cultivation. Education and credit received had no
significant relationship with attitude towards jute 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