EFFECTIVENESS OF TRAINING PROGRAMME ON MUSHROOM CULTIVATTION

Abstract

The purposes of the study were to investigate the effectiveness of training programme on mushroom cultivation and to explore the relationships of each of the selected characteristics of the mushroom farmers with their effectiveness of training programme. Data were collected from the trained mushroom farmers of selected eight villages of three upazilas of Comilla district during 01 to 16 March, 2016. The sample size of the study was 103 mushroom farmers and drawn from a population of 801 using proportionate random sampling technique. It was revealed that training programme on mushroom cultivation was medium effective among highest proportion (39.8%) of the trained mushroom farmers, while 32% and 28.2% were found low and high effective respectively. Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (r)

was computed to explore the relationships between the effectiveness of training programme on mushroom cultivation of the trained farmers and their selected characteristics. The correlation analysis indicated that age, cosmopoliteness and extension media contact of the trained mushroom farmers had significant positive relationships with their effectiveness of training programme on mushroom cultivation. Fatalism and problems faced by the trained farmers in mushroom cultivation had significant negative relationships with their effectiveness of training programme on mushroom cultivation. Education, family size, annual family income, peer group influence, organizational participation, innovativeness had no significant relationships with their effectiveness of training programme on mushroom cultivation. It was found that training programme on mushroom cultivation was effective to the trained farmers from medium to very high level. So, necessary steps need to be taken to enhance the existing activities of mushroom training programme that could improve the sustainable mushroom production as well as the livelihood of the mushroom farmers throughout the country.