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Participation of Rural Women in Homestead Agriculture in a Selected Area of Gazipur District

Kamrun Naher
Agricultural Extension Education, BAU, Mymensingh

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

The highest percentage of the rural women participated in each of the four selected activities such as 62% in post-harvest, 54% in poultry rearing, 47% in goat rearing and 40% in case of home stead vegetable cultivation and their extent of participatinn was also high. Comparative part icipation analysis reaveled that 'collection and preservation of eggs·, ·collect ion and preservation of seeds',winnowing of rice and nursing during labour' occupied 1st pososition among the items of participation under homestead vegetable cultivation, post-harvest activities, poultry raising and goat rearing with participation index of 174, 159, 159, and 121 , respectively. Computed ·r· values indicated that age of the rural women had no significant relationship with their participation in any of the four selected homestead agricultural activities. Farm size and family income had negative relationship with participation in goat rearing. However, education, extension contact, attitude towards homestead agriculture, and innovativeness of the rural women had positive relationship with participation of all of the activities and in most cases the relationship was significant. On an average, rural women utilized 9.89 and 3.18 hours/person/day , respectively in non-agricultural and agricultural activities Utilization of homestead area shows that largest position of area 0.0087 ha (2 7.19%) was under courtyard followed by living room 0.0065 ha (20. 13%) and trees 0.0052 ha (16.25%). Disease of the poultry' was mentioned as the number one problem regarding homestead agriculture which was followed by 'lack of vaccination facilities for poultry ' and 'lack of technical knowledge' in order of ranking.

Keywords: Participation of rural women, Homestead agricultural activities, Homestead vegetable cultivation, Post-harvest activities, poultry raising and goat rearing.

Location: Department of Agricultural Extension Education, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh

Start Date: 05-02-2000

End Date: 25-03-2000

Program Area: Socio-economic and Policy

Non-commodity: Performance

Objectives:

To assess the extent of participation of rural women in selected homestead agricultural activities viz. homestead vegetable cultivation, post-harvest activities, poultry raising and goat rearing.

Methodology:

Relationship between ten selected characteristics (independent variables) of rural women with their participation in homestead agricultural activities (dependent variables) were measured. Time utilization of rural women in agricultural and non-agricultural activities, utilization of homestead area and problems concerned by rural women in participating homestead agricultural activities were also studied for better understanding of the situation. Two villages namely, Taratpara and Samantapur under Joydebpur Upazila of Gazipur district were the locale of investigation. The rural farm families (227 from Taratpara and 265 from Samantapur) of the two villages constituted population of the study. Data were collected from a sample of I 00 housewives (46 from Taratpara and 54 from Samantapur) selected following a table of random number. The extent of participation of rural women in ten items of each of the four selected homestead agricultural activities was measured through a three-point Likert type scale. Percent, mean, range, standard deviation were used to analyze data. A comparative participation in ten selected items under each of the activities was computed using participation index. Coefficient of correlation ·r· was computed to test relationshjp between the dependent and independent variables.

Source of Information: Thesis By KAMRUN NAHER, Examination Roll No. 34 Reg. No.10286, Session : 1980-81, January-June Semester, 2000, Agricultural Extension Education, BAU, Mymensingh

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Achievement/Findings:

Rural women of the study area are participating in each of the selected homestead agricultural activities i . e., homestead vegetable cultivation , post-harvest activities, poultry raising and goat rearing and the extent of participation is high in all cases which is encouraging. In fact, these activities are mostly performed by women in our country and have rightly been reflected in the present study. Of course, their extent of participation in different items under each activity varied depending on nature of the activity, availability of inputs, technical know-how and also due to other characteristics of the rural women. So, there is a need for strengthening extension services by GOs and NGOs to ensure a continuous flow of information and technical know-how to the rural women for enhancing their skills and knowledge in the respective areas. Extension contact, cosmopoliteness, attitude and inovative have significantly positive relationship with participation of rural women in homestead agricultural activities in most cases. It implies that, the social and psychological characteristics of the rural women have profound influence on their participation in any activity. All these social and psychological characteristics are liable to change to a great extent with change in education, knowledge and also in income. In the present study, it was found that highest percentage of the respondents had moderate level of extension contact, attitude towards homestead agriculture and inlovativeness that have been ultimately reflected in their extent of participation.

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