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Adoption of Mixed Cropping in Rabi Season by the Farmers of Madaripur Sadar Upazila

H. M. SHAHIDUL ISLAM
MS. Student, Reg. No. 00459
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AND INFORMATION SYSTEM SHER-E-BANGLA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY SHER-E-BANGLA NAGAR, DHAKA -1207

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

The study was conducted in Madaripur Upazila under Madaripur district during July to December 2007 to determine the extent of mixed cropping in rabi season to explore the relationships between the selected characteristics of the respondents and their extent of adoption of mixed cropping in Rabi season. From the study it was found that the highest proportion (51 percent) of the farmers had low adoption compared to 40 and 9 percent having medium and high adoption of mixed cropping respectively. The number of family labor, cropping intensity, annual family income, credit received, training exposure and knowledge on mixed cropping had significant positive relationship with the adoption of mixed cropping while age, level of education, land possession, extension contact, and organization participation had no significant relationship with the adoption of mixed cropping. On the basis of descending order of Problem Faced Index (PFI) the farmers confronted the problems were “lack of extension service”, “lack of inputs in time”, “lack of technical knowledge”, “unfavorable climate”, “difficult to practice mixed cropping”, “high pest attack”, and “less crop production by adopting mixed cropping”.

Keywords: Adoption, Mixed cropping, Rabi season,Farmers

Location: Madaripur Upazila under Madaripur district

Start Date: 00-07-2007

End Date: 00-12-2007

Program Area: Farming System

Non-commodity: Adoption of technology

Objectives:

1. To determine and describe some selected personal and socio-economic characteristics of the farmers, the selected characteristics were:

a) age, b) level of education c) number of family labor d) land possession e) cropping intensity f) annual family income g) credit received h) extension contact

i) organizational participation j) training exposure k) knowledge on mixed cropping

2. To determine the extent of adoption of mixed cropping by the farmers

3. To determine the relationship between the selected personal and socioeconomic characteristics of the farmers and their extent of adoption of mixed cropping

4. To determine the problems faced by the farmers in adoption mixed cropping.

Methodology:

The design of the study was a descriptive survey research. That is, the study was designed to describe the mixed cropping in rabi season. It was also designed to describe the relationship between selected characteristics of the farmers and their mixed cropping and assess the problems faced by the farmers in mixed cropping. Data were collected by means of conducting an interview with selected respondents. The independent variables included age, level of education, number of family labor, land possession, cropping intensity, annual family income, credit received, extension contact, organizational participation, training exposure and knowledge on mixed cropping. The dependent variable was adoption of mixed cropping in rabi season by the farmers.The study was conducted in Madaripur Upazila under Madaripur district during July to December 2007. The total area of Madaripur Upazila was 314 square kilometers and the total population was 352523 (BBS, 2006). There were 38 blocks with 224 villages under 14 Unions of this Upazila. During the last three years different crops were cultivated by the farmers in all the 38 blocks. For the study at first four unions were selected randomly out of 14 unions. Finally eight villages were randomly selected from the selected four unions covering two villages from every union in view of constraints imposed by availability of time and funds. These eight villages of Madaripur Upazila was the locale of the study.There were 1003 farmers in the eight villages selected for the locale of the study which was constituted the population of the study. Data for this study were collected from a sample rather than the entire population. For better representation random sampling_method was used to select the sample. A sample population was obtained by taking 10 percent of the estimated population of eight randomly selected villages under four randomly selected unions. Thus 100 farmers constituted the sample of the study.Collected data were coded, compiled and analyzed according to the objectives of the study. The SPSS (computer programmed) was used to perform the data analysis. Descriptive statistics such as number, percent, mean, standard deviation, range, and rank order were used to describe the data. To determine the relationship between the selected personal and socio-economic characteristics of the fanners and their adoption of mixed cropping Pearson Product Moment correlation coefficient was computed. Throughout the study a 0. 05 level of probability with 98 degrees of freedom was used to reject any null hypothesis.

Source of Information: M.S. Thesis, SEMESTER: JULY-DECEMBER, 2007, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AND INFORMATION SYSTEM. SHER-E-BANGLA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, DHAKA -1207

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Achievement/Findings:

The highest proportion (51 percent) of the farmers had low adoption of mixed cropping compared to 40 and 9 percent having medium and high adoption of mixed cropping respectively. The number of family labor, cropping intensity, annual family income, credit received, training exposure and knowledge on mixed cropping had significant positive relationship with the adoption of mixed cropping while age, level of education, land possession, extension contact, and organization participation had no significant relationship with the adoption of mixed cropping. On the basis of descending order of Problem Faced Index (PFI) the farmers confronted the problems were “lack of extension service”, “lack of inputs in time”, “lack of technical knowledge”, “unfavorable climate”, “difficult to practice mixed cropping”, “high pest attack”, and “less crop production by adopting mixed cropping”.

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