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Adoption of Recommended Potato Cultivation Practices by the Farmers in Some Selected Areas of Naogaon District

M.R. Amin
BAU, Mymensingh

M.R. Islam
BAU, Mymensingh

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

The main purpose of the study was to determine the extent of adoption of recommended potato cultivation practices by the farmers in some selected areas of Naogaon district. The study also explored the relationships between nine selected characteristics of the farmers and their adoption of recommended potato cultivation practices. Data were collected from 100 randomly selected potato farmers in five selected villages of Sreemanthopur union under Niamatpur upazila of Naogaon district during 01 February to 14 March 2007 with the help of a structured interview schedule. A great majority of the farmers had low to medium adoption of recommended variety (81%), recommended dose of fertilizers (60%), recommended plant protection measures (64%) and composite adoption of recommended potato cultivation practices (57%). Correlation analysis indicates that among the selected characteristics of the farmers, education level, organizational participation, extension media contact, innovativeness and cosmopoliteness showed significantly positive relationships with their adoption of recommended potato cultivation practices. Only age of the farmers showed significant negative relationship with their adoption of recommended potato cultivation practices. Farmers indicated that there were 20 problems which hindered them to adopt recommended potato cultivation practices. Among the problems, late blight disease infestation, non-availability of improved seed in time, virus attacks, non-availability of credit in time and lack of training about use of fertilizers were the major adoption barriers towards potato cultivation. It was also found that overwhelming majority (100%) of the farmers faced problems ranging from medium to high extent.

Keywords: Adoption, Potato, Recommended cultivation practice.

Location: Niamotpur upazila of Naogaon District.

Start Date: 01-02-2007

End Date: 14-03-2007

Program Area: Socio-economic and Policy

Non-commodity: Adoption of technology

Objectives:

To determine the extent of adoption of recommended potato cultivation practices by the farmers,
To explore the relationships between the extent of adoption of recommended potato cultivation practices by the farmers and their selected personal and socio-economic characteristics, and
To identify the problems faced by the farmers in adopting recommended potato cultivation practices.

Methodology:

The location of the study was Niamotpur upazila of Naogaon District. The population of the study was the potato growers of Sreemanthopur union under Niamotpur upazila. The union consists of 18 villages. Out of 18 villages, 5 villages were selected at random. A list of potato growers of these five villages was prepared with the help of local village leaders and the concerned Sub Assistant Agriculture Officers. The total numbers of potato growers in these five villages were 500 farm families which constituted the population of the study.Twenty percent of the potato growers from the population were selected as sample from each of the village by using a table of random number which gave 100 potato growers. Adoption of recommended potato cultivation practices was the dependent variable of the study. The researcher selected four practices were recommended varieties, recommended dose of fertilizer, recommended dose of irrigation and recommended plant protection measures. Adoption has been measured in a number of ways in India (Ray, 1991). The simplest amongst them are preparation of indexes. Bose and Saxena (1965) developed an adoption index by asking the farmers how many improved practices recommended by the Extension Services they had adopted and for how many years. Recommended fertilizer dose score was computed by the following scale: use of ‘one-fourth of the recommended dose’, ‘half of the recommended dose’, ‘three-fourths of the recommended dose’, and ‘full recommended dose’ and the score were assigned as 1, 2, 3 and 4, respectively. Since there were six (06) items of fertilizer (Cow dung, Urea, TSP, MOP, Zypsum and Zinc Sulphate) included in the interview schedule the fertilizer sub-score of a respondent thus ranged from 6 to 24, 6 indicating use of low dose and 24 indicating use of full recommended dose of fertilizer. Similarly, the over dose of fertilizer score of a respondent was calculated by using the following scale: use ‘one-fourth more than recommended dose’, ‘half over than recommended dose’, ‘three-fourths over than recommended dose’ and ‘double than recommended dose’ and the score were assigned as 3(4-1), 2(4-2), 1(4-3) and 0(4-4), respectively. Appropriate methods were used to measure the personal and socio-economic characteristics of the farmers. In order to have an overall understanding of the problems faced by the farmers, problem- facing scores were computed for each individual. Scoring in this connection was made as follows: high problem was denoted by giving a score of ‘3’, medium problem ‘2’, low problem ‘1’ and not at all problem ‘0’. Scores obtained by an individual for all the 20 problems together were formed his problem facing score. For clear understanding of problems faced by the potato growers, a Problem Facing Index (PFI) for each item along with rank order was computed by using the following formula: Problem Facing Index (PFI) = Php x 3+ Pmp x 2 + Plp x 1 + Pnp x 0 Where, Php = Percent of respondent with “high problem” Pmp = Percent of respondent with “medium problem” Plp = Percent of respondent with “low problem” Pnp = Percent of respondent with “not at all problem” Problem facing index (PFI) of the farmers of the 20 items in recommended potato cultivation practices could range 0 to 300. A structured interview schedule was used for collection of relevant data for the study. The entire process of collecting data took place during the period from 01 February to 14 March 2007.

Source of Information: Bangladesh Journal of Extension Education Volume 21, No. 1&2, 2009: 125-132 ISSN 1011-3916

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Achievement/Findings:

For increasing the yield of potato, the farmers need to adopt all the improved practices to a higher extent. The individual adoption of four recommended practices was not so good. Almost majority of the farmers were low to medium adopters regarding recommended variety, recommended dose of fertilizer and recommended plant protection measures (81%, 60% and 64%, respectively). Only in case of adoption of recommended dose of irrigation, about half (55%) of the farmers were high adopters. The extent of composite adoption of four recommended practices was not also satisfactory to the expected level. Only 43 percent of the farmers were high adopters. Majority (57%) of them were medium to low adopters. The findings lead to the conclusion that efforts of Government Organization (GO) and Non- Government Organizations (NGO) has to be intensified to motivate the farmers about the need for the full adoption of all the recommended practices to get the expected results.

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