FARMERS PERCEPTION ABOUT CAUSES OF MONGA AND ADOPTION OF AGROFORESTRY PRACTICES AS A REMEDIES OF MONGA IN KURIGRAM DISTRICT

Abstract

Agroforestry practices is very important for socio-economic development in our country and also it contribute a great to combat Monga. The objective of this paper is to explore farmers perception about causes of Monga and adoption of agroforestry as a remedies of Monga and capacities to combat Monga at household level in the Kurigram district of Bangladesh. The agriculture based rural economy, extreme property, high percentage of landless, lack of sufficient caloric intake, unemployment of vast agricultural labor force etc. are the root causes of vulnerability to Monga in the northern regious specifically Kurigram.Data were collected by random sampling method of 150 respondents fron 781 farmers of 10 villages 5 upazilla under Kurigram district by using a pretested interview schedule during October 2019 to December 2019.Findings indicated that the highest portion of farmers had medium to low perception about causes of Monga and adoption of agroforestry practices. Out of 10 selected characteristics of respondents, annual income, effect of life on Monga had positive significance of perception about Monga.Also farming experience, organizational participation, effect of livelihood of farmers had significance about adoption of agroforestry practices. The rest of the variables namely:age,education,family,size,farm size, did not show any significant correlation with the perception about causes of Monga & adoption of agroforestry practices. Relation with causes of Monga and farmers perception is medium to low in char area and rural area than sadar area.High perception about causes of Monga in sadar area.