ATTITUDE OF THE HOUSE OWNERS TOWARDS ROOFTOP GARDENING AT DHAKA CITY

Abstract

The study analyzes the attitude of the house owner towards rooftop gardening at Dhaka city and to explore the contribution of the selected characteristics of the respondents on their attitude towards rooftop gardening. The study has been conducted based on data collection in Mirpur-1 (word-3) of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC). Data were collected from 82 house owners in a time period of 07 January, 2017 to 06 February, 2017. Descriptive statistics, multiple regression were used for analysis. Most of respondents (62.1 percent) had a moderately favorable attitude towards rooftop gardening while 22.0 and 15.9 percent of them had poorly and highly favorable attitude respectively. Among the influential variables, level of education, use of information sources, training exposure and knowledge on rooftop gardening were significant contributor and all of them provided 51 percent contribution on attitude towards rooftop gardening. It was also found that lack of skilled manpower positioned the 1 st and scarcity of source of water in last position as per Problem Faced Index (PCI). It is recommended that the DAE should take necessary steps considering the above mentioned significant factors to make more favorable attitude of the house owners towards rooftop gardening.