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Problems Faced by Rural Women in Participating Homestead Waste Management Towards Achieving Ipns

S. Akhter
Research Associate, Dept. of Agricultural Extension Education, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh.

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

The main purpose of this study was to find out the problems of participation in homestead waste management activities by the rural women towards achieving IPNS (Integrated Plant Nutrient System). The study was conducted with the 95 female group members of Soil Fertility and Fertilizer Management Project from the four Blocks of Gouripur Upazila under Mymensingh district. A pre-designed pre-tested interview schedule was used to collect data on women’s personal characteristics and problems faced by rural women in waste management during March and April, 2007. Problem confrontation was also cross-checked through making Scored Causal Diagrams (SCDs). Two Focus Group Discussions were conducted to identify the wastes generated in the farming households. Extent of use of homestead wastes was identified through Resource Flow Diagrams. Mainly seven types of wastes were identified through discussion with women. These were cow dung, cattle-shed waste, poultry bird feces, crop harvest residues, kitchen waste, ash and rice husk. The wastes were mostly used as farmyard manure and diverted to field accordingly. About three-fourths (60%) of the rural women faced high problem and only 15% faced low problems in participating the waste management activities. While, SCDs explored that the main ‘root’ causes to ‘low participation in homestead waste management activities’ identified were lack of training on waste management, social/religious barrier, lack of grazing land and fodder/feed of the cattle. Rural women’s age showed significant positive relationship, and their education, family cooperation and exposure to agricultural information showed significant negative relationship with their confronted problems of participation in homestead waste management.

Keywords: Participation, Rural women, Problem confrontation, Waste management, IPNS

Location: Gouripur Upazila of Mymensingh

Start Date: 10-03-2007

End Date: 11-04-2007

Program Area: Crop-Soil-Water Management

Commodity: Bio fertilizer

Objectives:

1.To identify the wastes along with their sources come out from homestead;

2.To find out the extent of use of homestead wastes for different purposes;

3.To find out the problems of rural women to participate in homestead waste management activities

4.To explore relationship between eight selected characteristics of the rural women and their problems of participation in homestead waste management activities

Methodology:

Data were collected during 10 March to 11 April, 2007 from all the 95 female members of SFFP (Soil Fertility and Fertilizer Management Project) demonstration groups who received training on IPNS in Gouripur Upazila of Mymensingh district. Pre-designed and pre-tested interview schedule was used to collect data from the selected rural women. Problem confrontation was also cross-checked through making Scored Causal Diagrams (SCDs). Two Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) (Anonymous, 2003 and Popham, 1993) were conducted to identify the wastes generated in the farming households. The outcomes of two groups were merged together to get a list of wastes along with sources those come out from homestead. Extent of use of homestead wastes was identified through Resource Flow Diagrams (RFDs). Eight characteristics of the rural women were considered as independent variables (Garrett and Woodworth, 1981) in this study. The selected characteristics were: age, education, family size, annual household income, family cooperation, exposure to agricultural information, awareness of environmental degradation and seasonal variability of involvement in waste management activities. Problem faced by rural women in homestead waste management was selected as the only dependent variable of the study. Different descriptive statistical methods were used in describing the dependent and independent variables. Coefficient of correlation (r) was used for exploring the relationship between the independent and dependent variables. Problems faced by rural women in participating homestead waste management towards achieving IPNS were measured through achieving opinions of rural women against 12 selected statements with a three-point rating scale i.e. ‘severely confronted’, ‘moderately confronted’ and ‘not at all’ having corresponding scores of ‘2’, ‘1’ and ‘0’. Thus, problem confrontation score of a respondent could range from ‘24’ to ‘0’. To cross-check the rural women’s problem confrontation of participation in homestead waste management towards IPNS, Scored Causal Diagrams (SCDs) of Participatory Farm Management (PFM) (Galpin et al., 2000) methods were used. SCDs were used to examine in detail the causes and effects of problems and to identify the ‘root’ cause which need to be addressed, and to analyze the relative importance of the problems and prioritize them.

Source of Information: Bangladesh Journal of Extension Education ISSN 1011-3916 Volume 20, No. 1&2, 2008:59-70

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Achievement/Findings:

Rural women’s age showed significant positive relationship, and their education, family cooperation and exposure to agricultural information showed significant negative relationship with their confronted problems of participation in homestead waste management.

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