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Farmer Attitude Towards Organic Vegetable Cultivation in Rangunia Upazila, Chittagong, Bangladesh

Sohel Rana
Dept. of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences, Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Chittagong, Bangladesh

Md. Hafiz Hasan
Upazila Agriculture Officer, Department of Agricultural Extension, Ministry of Agriculture, Bangladesh

Mohammad Shah Alam
Upazila Agriculture Officer, Department of Agricultural Extension, Ministry of Agriculture, Bangladesh

Mohammad Saiful Islam
Agricultural Research and Development Officer, Harvest Plus Program, International Rice Research Institute, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

The study was undertaken to determine the attitude of farmers towards organic vegetable cultivation and explore the relationships between their selected characteristics with their attitude. Data were collected through personal interview using pre tested structured questionnaire from a sample of 65 randomly selected vegetable farmers and FGD during January to February 2015 in Pourashava and Sarafvata union under Rangunia upazila of Chittagong district. Attitude was measured against 13 statements regarding organic vegetable cultivation following five point Likert scale. To explore the relationship between the concerned variables correlation coefficient (r) was computed using SPSS. Descriptive statistics were used to describe the variables. Majority of the farmers (95.4%) had positive attitude towards organic vegetable cultivation. Correlation analysis indicates that level of education, extension media contact and agricultural training received had positive and significant relationship with their attitude score.

Keywords: Attitude, Vegetable farmers, Organic farming, Chittagong

Location: Pourashava and Sarafvata union under Rangunia upazila of Chittagong district

Start Date: 00-01-2015

End Date: 00-02-2015

Program Area: Knowledge Management

Non-commodity: Impact

Objectives:

To measure the attitude of vegetable farmers towards organic vegetable cultivation and to investigate relationship between their selected characteristics and their attitude towards organic vegetable cultivation.

Methodology:

The study was conducted in Pourashava and Sarafvata union under Rangunia upazila of Chittagong district. The villages were selected through discussion with upazila agriculture office of Rangunia upazila. The population of the study was the farmers who cultivate vegetables mainly. Data were collected from the sixty five farmers through personal interview using pre tested structured questionnaire and focus group discussion (FGD) during January to February 2015. Farmers attitude towards organic vegetable cultivation was the focus variable of the study. For measuring attitude of the respondents, a 5 point Likert scale (Likert, 1932) was used. There were 13 statements including both positive and negative to avoid the biasness of the respondents. Each respondent was asked to indicate his extent of agreement or disagreement against each statement along a 5 point scale: strongly agree, agree, undecided, disagree and strongly disagree. Weights assigned to these responses were 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 respectively. The total score of a respondent was determined by summing up the weights for responses against all 13 statements. Attitude score = 5xSA+4xA+3xU+2xDA+1xSDA. Where, SA=Total number of respondents expressing their attitude ‘strongly agree’ for the statement, A=Total number of respondents expressing their attitude ‘agree’ for the statement, U=Total number of respondents expressing their attitude ‘undecided’ for the statement, DA=Total number of respondents expressing their attitude ‘disagree’ for the statement, SDA=Total number of respondents expressing their attitude ‘strongly disagree’ for the statement. This formula was considered for positive statements; on the other hand scoring was reverse for negative statements. In case of negative statements strongly agree, agree, undecided, disagree and strongly disagree were assigned weight as 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 respectively. Attitude score of a respondent would be range from 13 to 65.The data were collected through face to face interview using a structured questionnaire, focus group discussion (FGD) from the respondents of the selected areas. SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) software was used to data management and analysis.

Source of Information: J. Biosci. Agric. Res. 14(01): 1151-1156

Article Link (Online Journal): https://doi.org/10.18801/jbar.140117.141

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Achievement/Findings:

It can be concluded that most of the respondents have favorable and highly favorable attitude towards organic vegetable cultivation. From the selected characteristics of the farmers level of education, extension media contact and agricultural training received has positive and significant relationship towards organic agricultural practices. It is therefore recommended that the extension service providers like DAE and other NGOs should take into active consideration on providing training to the vegetable farmers and need based advisory services for organic vegetable cultivation.

Knowledge Management: Journal