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Farmers Attitude Towards the Use of Usg in Rice Cultivation in Three Selected Villages of Netrakona District

N. C. Basak
On-Farm Research Division, Regional Agricultural Research Station, BARI, Jamalpur, Bangladesh.

J. C. Pandit
Agriculture Information Service, Khamarbari, Farmgate, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

The study was conducted to determine the attitude of farmers towards the use of urea super granule (USG) in rice cultivation and explore relationship between the selected characteristics of the farmers. Data were collected through personal interview from 84 randomly selected USG users in rice cultivation of the three villages under Sadar Upazila of Netrakona district during October to December 2008. A five point Likert scale was used to determine the attitude of farmers. The majority (73.81%) of the farmers had moderately favorable, 21.43% slightly favorable and 4.76% highly favorable attitude towards use of USG in rice cultivation. Level of education, farm size, annual income, farming information, agricultural training exposure and rice farming knowledge of the farmers’ had significant positive relationship but family subsistence pressure had significant negative relationship with their attitude towards the use of USG.

Keywords: Rice, Urea super granule (USG), Attitude, Farmers

Location: Three villages under Sadar Upazila of Netrakona district

Start Date: 00-10-2008

End Date: 00-12-2008

Program Area: Knowledge Management

Commodity: Rice

Objectives:

To determine the attitude of farmers towards the use of urea super granule (USG) in rice cultivation and explore relationship between the selected characteristics of the farmers.

Methodology:

Upazila of Netrakona district. The villages were selected purposively. The basis of the selection was availability of USG users. Total number of USG user in three villages was 280, which constituted the population of the study. Out of which 84 (30% of the total population) USG users were selected randomly and proportionately from each of the three villages to constitute the sample. Data were collected from the respondents through direct interviewing method using a pre-tested structured interview schedule during October to December 2008. Variables of the study: The independent variables of the study were 13 selected characteristics of the farmers. These were age, education, family size, farm size, annual income, family subsistence pressure, farming experience, farming information exposure, agricultural training exposure, rice farming knowledge, cosmopolite ness, innovative ness and organizational participation

Source of Information: J. Bangladesh Agril. Univ. 9(2): 179–185, 2011 ISSN 1810-3030

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Achievement/Findings:

The majority (73.81%) of the farmers had moderately favorable, 21.43% slightly favorable and 4.76% highly favorable attitude towards use of USG in rice cultivation. Level of education, farm size, annual income, farming information, agricultural training exposure and rice farming knowledge of the farmers’ had significant positive relationship but family subsistence pressure had significant negative relationship with their attitude towards the use of USG.

Knowledge Management: Journal