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Women’s Participation in Poultry Farming to Alleviate Poverty from Batiaghata Upazila Under Khulna District

Sarder Safiqul Islam
Agrotechnology Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna, Bangladesh

Tonima Tahera
Agrotechnology Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna, Bangladesh

Raju Mondal
Agrotechnology Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna, Bangladesh

Md. Maruf Billah
Agrotechnology Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna, Bangladesh

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

The purpose of the study was to determine the participation of rural women in poultry farming as a means to reduce poverty from two villages namely Kismatpur and Kharabad of Amirpur union under Batiaghata upazila of Khulna district, Bangladesh. Data were collected from 55 rural women involved in poultry farming practices using questionnaires. The socio-economic study revealed that majority of the women (72.7%) were young aged having medium sized families (63.6%) and 90.9 percent women poultry farmers being literate. About half of the respondents (54.5%) were belongs to marginal farmer’s category and all respondents (100%) had medium annual income. The study revealed that women participation was maximum in poultry feeding activities and least in purchasing, processing and marketing activities. About 34.5 percent of the respondents had no organizational participation. Amon g the respondents, 76.4 percent had low extension contact. About 58.2 percent had no training while 45.5 percent had high knowledge about poultry farming activities. Among thirteen selected characteristics of the respondents age had shown negative significant and education level had positive significant relationship with participation of women in poultry farming activities. Poultry farming contributes 23 percent to the total income which improved income, rate of wearing good clothes, improved housing condition, access to medical care and adequate and safe food which has considered as the poverty reduction indicators. So participation of women in poultry farming activities had a more or less positive impact on income which ultimately leads to alleviate poverty.

Keywords: Women’s participation, Poultry farming, Poverty alleviation

Location: Amirpur union under Batiaghata upazila in Khulna district

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Program Area: Socio-economic and Policy

Non-commodity: Income generation

Objectives:

1. To assess the socio-economic characteristics of rural women participating in poultry farming activities.

2. To investigate the extent of participation of rural women in poultry farming activities in the study area.

3. To find out the contribution of the rural women poultry farmers to alleviate poverty in the study area.

Methodology:

Locale and sampling- The study was conducted at two villages of Amirpur union under Batiaghata upazila in Khulna district. The rural women of the study area who were participating in poultry farming activities were treated as population of this study and selected randomly taking 25 from Kismatpur and 30 from Kharabad village. Thus the sample size was 55. Selection and measurement of variables- Reviewing related studies, the researchers considered 13 characteristics of the rural women as independent variables. These were; age of respondent, level of education, family type, family size , farm size, organizational participation, farming experience (poultry), farming experience (agriculture), extension media contact, knowledge about poultry farming, training , poverty reduction and total household income. On the other hand, the participation of rural women in poultry farming activities was treated as dependent variable. Five important broad aspects of poultry farming activities were included to measure participation of rural women and a number of 19 relevant issues were also included under the five broad aspects of poultry farming activities. A four-point Likert scale in which 0 = not at all, 1 = some extent, 2 = average extent, 3 = great extent was employed against each of the issues to determine the extent of participation of rural women. A score of 3, 2, 1 and 0 were assigned against each of the scale. Participation score of a respondent was determined by summing up all the scores obtained by the respondent against all the issues of the five selected aspects. The participation score of a respondent could range from ‘0’ to ‘57’ where ‘0’ indicates no participation and ‘57’ indicate high participation. To compare the level of participation in 5 major aspects as well as 19 issues a participation index (PI) was calculated by using the following formula: PI = Nge× 3 + Nae×2 + Nse× 1+ Nna × 0 Where, PI= Participation Index Nge= No. of the respondent participated to a great extent Nae= No. of the respondent participated to an average extent Nse= No. of the respondent participated to some extent Nna= No. of the respondent not at all participated As there were 55 respondents, so Participation Index (PI) could range 0-165. Where ‘0’ indicate no participation and ‘165’ indicated to great extent participation. Based on PI the five aspects as well as 19 issues were ranked to compare the level of participation by the respondents in selected aspects and issues. Data collection and Analysis- Data were collected with the help of the interview schedule keeping the objectives in mind during 4^th March to 6^th April, 2018.After completion of survey, local units were converted into standard unit and then all the qualitative data were converted into quantitative form by means of suitable code and score whenever necessary. Statistical measure such as number, percentage, minimum-maximum, rank order, mean and standard deviation were used in describing the independent and dependent variables. For exploring the relationships Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation Co-efficient (r) was computed by Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 20.

Source of Information: International Journal of Agronomy and Agricultural Research, Vol. 14, No. 6, p. 32-38, 2019

Article Link (Online Journal): http://www.innspub.net

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Achievement/Findings:

Young and educated rural women farmers are more interested in participating poultry farming in a meaningful way to conduct their farming activities. Majority of the women poultry farmers has medium participation in conducting poultry farming and are more interested in feeding activities, health care, farm management etc. Participation of women in poultry farming activities has a more or less positive impact on family income which ultimately leads to alleviate poverty from the rural society.

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