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Competency Assessment of the Farmers on the Application of One House One Farm Approach

I. Islam
Former M.S. Student
Department of Agricultural ExtensionEducation, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh-2202, Bangladesh

M. J. Hoque
Associate Professor
Department of Agricultural ExtensionEducation, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh-2202, Bangladesh

M. A. Momen Miah
Professor
Department of Agricultural ExtensionEducation, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh-2202, Bangladesh

S. Sheheli
Associate Professor
Department of Agricultural ExtensionEducation, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh-2202, Bangladesh

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

The purposes of the study were to determine the extent of competency of the farmers on the application of One House One farm approach and to find out the relationships between the extent of competency of the farmers and their selected characteristics. Data were collected from 100 randomly selected farmers (out of 700) from two unions of Mymensingh Sadar Upazila. A pre-tested and structured interview schedule was used to collect data from the farmers during the period of 18 March to 01 April 2013. The extent of competency of the farmers on the application of One House One Farm approach was the dependent variable of the study. To measure the dependent variables, a total of 18 statements about competency of the farmers were selected and each of the competency was put against a four point rating scale such as excellent, above average, average and not at all, and the corresponding score were given as 3, 2, 1, and 0, respectively. Therefore, the possible range of score of 20 competencies would be 0-54. The competency gaps of the farmers were measured by Cut-Score method on rating scale. One hundred (100) is the Cut-Score with an assumption if all the respondents go for Average (score: 1). The independent variables, however, were measured by using suitable scales and techniques. Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (r) was used to explore the relationships between the concerned variables. The findings indicate that majority of the respondents (94 per cent) had medium competency compared to 2 per cent of them having high competency. On the other hand, there were 4 respondents under low extent of competency. Out of ten selected characteristics, the farmer’s level of education, farm size, training exposure, extension media contact, agricultural knowledge and awareness on One House One Farm approach showed significant positive relationships with their extent of competency on the application of One House One Farm approach. Age, household size, annual family income, and organizational participation had no relationships with their extent of competency on the application of One House One Farm approach.

Keywords: Competency assessment, One House One Farm approach, Farmer

Location: Two unions under Mymensingh Sadar Upazila, where One House One Farm farmers were available. Bhabkhali and Char Ishwardia unions were selected purposively as the study area.

Start Date: 18-03-2013

End Date: 01-04-2013

Program Area: Socio-economic and Policy

Non-commodity: Social status

Objectives:

i) To determine the extent of competency of the farmers on the application of One House One Farm approach;

ii) To find out the present competency gap of the farmers on the application of One House One Farm approach;

iii) To determine the relationship between the extent of competency of farmers and their selected characteristics; and

iv) To explore the problems encountered by the farmers on the application of One House One Farm approach.

Methodology:

The study was conducted in two unions under Mymensingh Sadar Upazila, where One House One Farm farmers were available. Bhabkhali and Char Ishwardia unions were selected purposively as the study area. Updated lists of all the One House One Farm farmers were collected from the Deputy Director’s (DD) office of the Bangladesh Rural Development Board (BRDB) in Mymensingh district. In Bhabkhali and Char Ishwardia union, 700 One House One Farm farmers were found from which 15 per cent were selected randomly. Therefore, a total of 105 farmers were selected as the sample of the study. In order to collect relevant data for the study, a structured interview schedule was carefully prepared during the period from 18 March to 01 April 2013.The researcher did not face any major problem in collecting data. At the end of data collection, the collected data were coded, compiled, tabulated and analyzed. The local units were converted into standard units. The qualitative data were transferred into quantitative data by appropriate scoring technique. Descriptive statistics such as range, frequency, number, percentages, mean, standard deviation and rank order were used for categorization and describing the variables. Analysis such as mean, range, number and percentage, standard deviation and rank order were used to explain the data. Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (r) was used for testing the relationships between the concerned variables. Measurement of the farmers’ competency on the application of one house one farm The extent of competency of the farmers on the application of One House One Farm approach was the dependent variable of the study. To measure the dependent variables, a total of 18 statements about competency of the farmers were selected and each of the competency was put against a four point rating scale such as excellent, above average, average and not at all and the corresponding score were given as 3, 2, 1, and 0, respectively. Therefore, the possible range of score of 20 competencies would be 0-54. The competency gaps of the farmers were measured by Cut-Score method on rating scale. One hundred (100) is the Cut-Score with an assumption if all the respondents go for Average (score: 1).

Source of Information: Progress. Agric. 24(1 & 2): 291 – 299, 2013 ISSN 1017-8139

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Achievement/Findings:

The study reveals that majority of the farmers’ had moderate or less competency on the application of One House One Farm approach. This led to the conclusion that for the better adoption of this approach among the farmer high competencies is required. The findings indicate that the highest proportion (49%) of the farmers was in the young aged category. Age of the fish farmers had significant negative relationship with their extent of competency of One House One Farm approach. So, it can be concluded that the extent of competency of One House One Farm approach of the farmers gradually decrease with the increase of their age. The statistical analysis showed significant positive relationship of level of education, farm size, training exposure, extension media contact, agricultural knowledge and awareness of the farmers on the application of One House One Farm approach had significant positive relationships with their competency. Therefore, it may be concluded that these characteristics of the farmers can play an important role to improve their extent of competency of One House One Farm approach. Farmers fell many gaps to manage the One House One Farm approach. Among these gaps, the most important are preparing family budget, punctuality, initiatives, leadership skills and socio political activism. In some cases, they get training but no credit facilities and some farmers get credit and technical support without training or untimely training. Farmers face many problems to get technical support and credit from the government. In some cases, they get training but no credit facilities and some farmers get credit and technical support without training or untimely training. The loan distribution system seems to very much complex to the farmers.

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