Abstract:
The study was conducted in Rangpur Pouroshava under Sadar upazila of Rangpur
District to study the training needs of farmers on potato cultivation. Parbotipur village
of Rangpur Pouroshava in Sadar upazila of Rangpur District selected purposively as
the locale of the study. Potato growers of this selected village constituted the
population of the study. An updated list of 417 farmers from the selected village was
prepared with the help of Sub-Assistant Agriculture Officer of this locality. Around
25%
of the populations were randomly selected as the sample of the study by using
random sampling method. Thus, 104 potato growers constituted the sample of the
study. A well structured interview schedule
was
developed based on objectives of the
study for collecting information. The researcher himself collected data through
personal contact. Among the respondents, in training needs of farmers on potato
cultivation the highest 62.50 percent belongs to high level training needs group
followed by 20.19 percent in medium level training need and 17.31 percent in low
level training need group. Age and problems of potato farmers had significant positive
relationships with their training needs on potato cultivation but level of education and
farm size had significant negative relationship. Family size and agricultural
knowledge of the farmers had non significant positive relationships with training
needs of farmers on potato cultivation but annual family income, organizational
participation, cosmopoliteness and knowledge on potato production & marketing had
non significant negative relationship
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
