FARMERS’ INNOVATIVENESS ON MODERN AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY IN NILPHAMARI SADAR UPAZILA

Abstract

It is indeed true that agricultural mechanization is changing the face of farming across the world. Bangladesh is an agriculture based country. Mechanization is also upgrading the agriculture sector. Most of the people of our country is related with agriculture. But due to low knowledge on agricultural operation or modern agricultural machineries operation the farmer faced huge loss on crop production. That’s why the modern agricultural machineries need in agriculture sector to increase crop production. The main goal of the study was to evaluate the extent of innovativeness of the farmers on modern agricultural machinery. The study was conducted in the Nilphamari district’s Tupamari union of the sadar upazilla. From a revised list of 1021 farmers, 101 farmers were chosen as the sample. Between December 14, 2022 and January 15, 2023, data were gathered using pretested

interview schedule. In order to obtain information simple and direct questions with different scales were used. In order to quantify innovativeness, a 5-point rating scale was constructed. Co-efficient of correlation(r) was computed to explore the relationship between the nine characteristics of the farmers and their innovativeness on modern agricultural machinery. Among nine characteristics Farm size, area under mechanization, annual family income, extension media contact had significant positive relationship with innovativeness on modern agricultural machinery. Age, education, family size, organizational participation however, did not significantly influence one another. About 6.9 percent and 12.9 percent farmers who had high and low high innovativeness on modern machineries, other hand 80.2 percent had medium innovativeness.