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Adoption of Hybrid Rice by the Farmers of Fulphur Upazila of Mymensingh District

S. Mondal
BAU, Mymensingh

M.H. Rahman
BAU, Mymensingh

M. J. Hoque
BAU, Mymensingh

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

The major purposes of the study were to determine extent of adoption of hybrid rice by the farmers of Fulpur upazila under Mymensingh district and to explore relationships between the farmers’ adoption behaviour and their nine selected characteristics. The characteristics of the farmers namely age, education, family size, farm size, annual income, extension media contact, innovativeness, cosmopoliteness, farmers’ knowledge constituted independent variables. The study was confined to two villages namely Bagunda and Panihori under Kakni union of Fulphur upazila in Mymensingh district. Population of the study was constituted by 200 farmers who were cultivating hybrid rice in the selected villages. From the population 50 percent was purposively selected to obtain a sample containing 100 respondents. Data were collected using pre-tested interview schedule during March 10 to April 15, 2009 through personal interview. Simple correlation (r) was computed to explore the relationships between the dependent and nine independent variables. Thirty eight percent of the farmers had medium adoption of hybrid rice cultivation followed by 37 percent had low and 25 percent had high adoption. The main reasons of hybrid rice adoption were (i) higher yield of hybrid rice than the HYV rice, (ii) higher profitability, (iii) non-complexity of cultivation procedure, (iv) availability of quality seeds, and (v) inspiration by extension agents for hybrid rice. Among the nine characteristics of farmers, three namely farm size, annual family income and innovativeness showed significant positive relationships with their adoption of hybrid rice cultivation.

Keywords: Adoption, Adoption quotient, Hybrid rice, Fulpur, Innovation.

Location: Two villages of Fulphur upazila under Mymensingh district

Start Date: 10-03-2009

End Date: 15-04-2009

Program Area: Socio-economic and Policy

Non-commodity: Performance

Objectives:

To determine the extent of adoption of hybrid rice cultivation by the farmers and
To explore the relationships between farmers’ selected characteristics and their extent of adoption of hybrid rice cultivation.

Methodology:

The study was confined to two villages of Fulphur upazila under Mymensingh district. Fulpur upazila was selected for the study having the fact in mind that many private seed companies have been engaged in promoting hybrid rice in this upazila for several years in one hand, the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) had also the policy to disseminate the rice among the farmers of the area. The specific study areas were Bagunda and Panihori villages under Kakni union as selected randomly from nine villages. Population of the study was constituted by 200 farmers who were cultivating hybrid rice in the selected villages. From the population 50 percent was purposively selected to obtain a sample containing 100 respondents. Data were collected using pre-tested interview schedule during March 10 to April 15, 2009 through personal interview. Farmers’ extent of adoption of hybrid rice cultivation was the dependent variable and nine selected characteristics of the farmers were selected as independent variables. According to Chattapadhyay (1963) the adoption is the ratio scale designed to quantify the adoption behavior of an individual. The method of adoption quotient involves all the related concepts like potentiality, extent, time consistency and weightage. Therefore, the adoption quotient in this study was computed. The adoption quotient was expressed in percentage. Hence, the adoption of the farmers’ hybrid rice cultivation could range from 0 to 100 where 0 indicated no adoption and 100 indicated highest adoption (full adoption). The farmers gave their opinion on the major reasons for their adoption of hybrid rice in a four point rating scale. Ten reasons were identified for this purpose after discussion with local extension agents and officers of DAE. For each of the reason, a respondent was asked to indicate the degree of agreement by checking one answer from five options such as “most appropriate,” ‘moderately appropriate,” “less appropriate” and “not appropriate” reasons. Scores were assigned to these responses as 3, 2, 1 and 0, respectively. The reasons were ranked on the basis of average scores computed from the responses of all respondents.

Source of Information: Bangladesh Journal of Extension Education Volume 21, No. 1&2, 2009: 55-61 ISSN 1011-3916

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Achievement/Findings:

The findings of the study revealed that more than 60 percent of the farmers had medium to high adoption of hybrid rice cultivation. This might be considered as a desirable progress for dissemination of hybrid rice in the study area. However, 75 percent of the farmers had low to medium adoption of hybrid rice. Thus, through proper motivation and providing necessary services by the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE), it is possible to increase the rate of hybrid rice adoption by the farmers with low and medium adoption behaviour in the study area. Among the nine selected characteristics of farmers, three namely farm size, annual family income, and innovativeness showed significant positive relationships with their adoption of hybrid rice cultivation. So, to increase the extent of adoption of hybrid rice by the farmers in the study villages above mentioned characteristics may be considered during motivational period of the farmers. Thus, the Department of Agricultural Extension should prepare such pragmatic programmes those can incorporate proper judgment of farm size of the farmers, their annual income and innovativeness for increasing adoption of hybrid rice in the study villages.

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