Abstract:
Abstract
The main purpose of this study was to determine the extent of utilization of agricultural
machineries by the farmers and to explore the relationship of each of the selected
characteristics of the farmers with their utilization of agricultural machinery. The selected
characteristics were age, education, farm working area, annual family income, extension
contact, possession agricultural implements and satisfaction on agricultural implements. Data
were gathered from 107 farmers of four villages namely Sathalia, Jugipara, Jadur Tair and
Mothor para of Saghatta upazila under Gaibandha district by using personal interview
schedule during the period from 24
th
October to 16
th
November, 2020. The Findings revealed
that 86.9 percent of the farmers had medium use of farm implements as compared to 13.1
percent of them having low utilization of the same. Pearson’s Product Moment coefficient of
correlation (r) show that farm working area, annual family income, extension contact,
possession of agril. implements and satisfaction of agril. implements had significant positive
relationship with their utilization of farm implements while rest of the variables show non
significant relationship with their use of farm implements. Constraints faced Index (CFI) in
using of farm implements, indicated that “high cost of agril. machineries” ranked the 1
problem followed by “weather related issues”.
Key words: utilization, agricultural machineries, constrained faced
st
Description:
A thesis
Submitted to the Department of Agricultural Extension and Information System
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree of
MASTER OF SCIENCE (MS)
IN
AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION
SEMESTER: July-December, 2020
