Abstract:
The purpose of the study was to find out the problems faced by the roof gardeners
at Mohammadpur under the Dhaka city. Attempts were also made to describe some
characteristics of the respondents of that area. The selected characteristics were:
age, family size, education, family income, area covered by the roof garden,
knowledge, use of information sources, attitude towards rooftop gardening,
training exposure on roof top gardening. Sixty respondents were selected by using
Yeomen's formula. Mohammadpur thana area under Dhaka city. Data were
collected by using a pretested personal interview schedule during March to May,
2014. Pearson's Product moment Correlation "r" was used to determine the
relationship between the selected characteristics of the respondents with their
extent of problems in roof top gardening. The findings revealed that the majority
(45%) of the respondent faced medium problem whilc 40% percent of the
respondent faced low problem. Comparatively few respondents
(15%) faced high
problem in roof top gardening. Among nine selected characteristics of the
respondents, S namely. Level of education, Knowledge on roof top gardening, Use of
information sources, Attitude towards roof top gardening, and Training had
significant negative relationship with their problems faced in roof top gardening and
the rest 4 characteristics namely, age, Family Size, Family Annual Income and
roof top space had no significant relationship with their problems of roof top
gardening.
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
