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Information Source Preference of Farmers Regarding Modern Aquaculture Technologies in Bogra District of Bangladesh

Md. Hashmi Sakib
Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development, Exim Bank Agricultural University, Bangladesh.

Md. Safiul I. Afrad
Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agriculture University, Gazipur, Bangladesh.

Mohammad Ali
Department of Statistics, Exim Bank Agricultural University, Bangladesh.

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

Bangladesh economy is relying on aquaculture for its export earnings and as a whole fisheries sector is performing very well to mitigate the crisis of dietary need of protein as one of the best animal sources. Main objective of present study was to bring out the extent of use of different information sources by the fish farmers. The study was conducted in Kahaloo and Sherpur upazilas of Bogra district. Respondent were entirely fish farmers selected by using simple random sampling technique. Quantitative data were collected using predesigned interview schedule and SPSS 16 software was used to analyze the collected data. Majority of the respondents (70%) was found as low to medium user of information sources. On the basis of utilization of information sources, mass media ranked first. Socio-demographic characteristics namely education, fish farming area, annual family income, social participation and innovativeness had positive and significant relationship with use of information sources except age of the respondents. Among all socio-demographic characteristics, education contributed 59.00%, age contributed 6.70% and social participation contributed 2.70 to the explained variance of 68.40%. Therefore educational background of a farmer may play a vital role to change the present scenario of farmers’ preference about information sources. On the other hand there is rampant scope to improve the present condition of farmer’s information management through extension workers, field supervisors and fisheries officer of GOs and NGOs as well.

Keywords: Aquaculture, Information, Technologies

Location: Bogra district

Start Date: 00-00-2014

End Date: 00-00-2014

Program Area: Knowledge Management

Commodity: Aquatic animal

Objectives:

1. To bring out the extent of use different information sources by the fish farmers

2. To ascertain about the relationships between the farmer's socio-demographic characteristics and use of information sources by them

3. To asses the contributing factors regarding use of information sources by the fish farmers.

Methodology:

Among 12 upazilas of Bogra District, Kahaloo and Sherpur were considered as study area. Kahaloo upazilla is situated at the western corner of Bogra district and very familiar about aquaculture practices, on the other hand Sherpur is also a upazila having enormous aquaculture activities to the south of Bogra. In order to take interview of fish growers, a list of farmersof study area was prepared with the help of the Upazila Fisheries Officers (UFO) from Kahaloo and Sherpur. Finally prepared list consisted of 366 farmers’ name. Only heads of these 366 fish farmers constituted the population. From the population, 110 farmers were taken by using simple random sampling technique. Resultantly 110 fish farmers constituted the sample of this study. In order to collect valid and reliable information from the farmers an interview schedule was developed considering the objectives of the study. Six selected characteristics namely age, education, fish farming area, annual family income, social participation and innovativeness of the respondents were the independent variables where use of information sources was the dependent variable measured.The dependent variable was categorized on the basis of range and ranked and computation of index score as well. Index for each information source calculated by using the following formula: Index = Pl x 1 + Pm x 2 + Ph x 3 Where, Pl = %age of respondents having low information utilization, Pm = %age of respondents having medium information utilization, Ph= %age of respondents having high information utilization; On the other hand correlation analysis was done to visualize the relationship between the farmer's socio-demographic characteristics and use of information sources by them. Moreover regression analysis has been employed to ascertain the important contributing socio-demographic factors regarding use of information sources by fish growers.

Source of Information: Int. J. Agr. Ext. 03 (01) 2015. 01-05

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Achievement/Findings:

Majority of the farmers performed medium to low in case of utilization of information sources. While they prefer mass media and group contact rather other sources. Socio-demographic characteristics namely education had strong positive and significant relationship with utilization of information sources by the farmers. It was found that this character contributed 59% to the explained variance of 68.40. Therefore educational background of a farmer may play a vital role to change the present scenario of farmers’ preference about information sources. On the other hand there is rampant scope to improve the present condition of farmer’s information management through extension workers, field supervisors and fisheries officer of GOs and NGOs as well.

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