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Interest of the Landless Rural Youth in Income Earning Vegetable Cultivation in Two Selected Villages Under Mymensingh Sadar Upazila

MOHAMMAD SHAHIDUL ISLAM
Department of Agricultural Extension Education Bangladesh Agricultural University , Mymensingh.

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

The main purpose of this study was to determine i) the interest of the landless rural youth in selected income earning vegetable cultivation, ii) thier problem confrontation in the cultivation of income earning vegetables and iii) their twelve selected characteristics namely, age, education, experience in crop farming, agricultural knowledge, family size of the landless rural youth/parents, family education, organizational participation, income of the landless rural youth/parents, participation in existing activities, farm size of parents/landless rural youth, ability to cope with uncertainty and attitude towards new technology. Interest and problem confrontation constituted dependent variables whereas twelve selected characteristics constituted independent variables of this study. Data were collected with the help of interview schedule from I 00 landless rural youth living in 305 landless rural youth families of two selected BAUEC villages namely, Bhabakhali and Daribhabakhali, during the period from 6th September to 28'h September, 200 I

Keywords: Interest of the landless rural youth , Income,Vegetable cultivation

Location: Mymensingh Sadar Upazila.

Start Date: 06-09-2001

End Date: 28-09-2001

Program Area: Socio-economic and Policy

Commodity: Vegetables

Objectives:

l) To determine and describe the interest of the landless rural youth in selected income earning vegetable cultivation.

2) To determine and describe the extent of problem confrontation by the landless rural youth in cultivation of income earning vegetables

3) To determine and describe the selected personal, social, economic and psychological characteristics of the landless rural youth belonging to the landless families.

Methodology:

Two villages, namely, Bhabakhali and Daribhabakhali (under Bhabakhali union) of Sadar upazila under Mymensingh district were selected purposively as the locale of research. The two· selected villages had 305 landless rural youth families and 342 landless rural youth (a family having at least one l landless rural youth in the desired age category of 15 to 30 years). For collecting data 33 percent landless rural youth families were selected from the two selected villages by proportionate random sampling use table of random numbers. Random method was also used to select a landless rural youth when a family was having more than one landless rural youth. Thus 100 landless rural youth were selected from 100 landless rural youth families. Data were collected by the researcher himself using structured and pre-tested interview schedule. The data of the study were collected during 6th September to 28th September 2001

Source of Information: DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION EDUCATION BANGLADESH AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY

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Achievement/Findings:

Interest indices (II) of the landless rural youth on twenty selected vegetables ranged from 113 to 283, against the possible range of 0 to 300, for the purpose of income earning. Nine selected vegetables exceeded ll 250. However, based on I I , the top five income earning vegetables were: i) tomato (283), ii) winter brinjal (272), iii) ladies' finger (265), iv) bean (263) and v) potato (259). II were also over 250 in bitter gourd (252), red amaranth (252), summer brinjal (251 ) and indian spinach (250). There were also five vegetables with II over 200 and six vegetables with below 200. Carrot (113) was the lowest in rank order. However, in respect of overall interest in selected income earning vegetable cultivation, the highest proportion (62 percent) of the landless rural youth were in the high category, over one-fifth in the medium (26 percent) and only 12 percent in the low interest category.

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