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Participation of Landless Rural Women in Income Generating Activities of Sadar Upazila Under Rajshahi District

M.F. Chowdhury
Professor
Department of Agronomy and Agricultural Extension, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi-6205, Bangladesh.

M.R. Amin
Associate Professor
Department of Agronomy and Agricultural Extension, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi-6205, Bangladesh.

S. Qais
Professor
Department of Crop Science and Technology, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi-6205, Bangladesh.

M.A. Baree
Professor
Department of Crop Science and Technology, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi-6205, Bangladesh.

R. Khatun
Former M.S. Student
Department of Agronomy and Agricultural Extension; University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi-6205, Bangladesh.

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

The study was conducted to determine the extent of participation of landless rural women in income generating activities and to explore relationships among the selected characteristics of them with their participation in income generating activities. The study also outlined the problems faced by the landless rural women during their participation in various activities. More than three-fourths (78.33 percent) of the landless rural women faced medium problems while 12.5 percent low and 9.16 percent had faced high problems for participation in different income generating activities. Correlation analysis indicated that the characteristics of the landless rural women namely age, annual family income, innovativeness, frequency of visit to agricultural extension services, training received, Radio/TV watching/listening, organizational participation and cosmopolitanism had significant relationship of which annual family income, frequency of visit to agricultural extension services, training received, Radio/TV watching /listening, organizational participation, cosmopolitanism had positive relationship and two characteristics namely age and farm size had negative relationship with their extent of participation in income generating activities.

Keywords: Landless women, Income generating activities, Innovativeness,

Location: Three villages, namely Kazla, Charpara and Jahajghat under Sadar Upazila of Rajshahi district

Start Date: 25-03-2016

End Date: 25-04-2016

Program Area: Socio-economic and Policy

Non-commodity: Income generation

Objectives:

The present study was taken with the following objectives:

1. To determine the selected characteristics of the respondents in the study area;

2. To find out the participation of landless rural women in income generating activities;

3. To explore the relationship between selected characteristics of the landless rural women and their participation in income generating activities, and

4. To identify the problems faced by the landless rural women in income generating activities.

Methodology:

Three villages, namely Kazla, Charpara and Jahajghat under Sadar Upazila of Rajshahi district were selected purposively for this study since the socio-economic conditions of the study area are quite familiar to the researcher. The landless rural families in these areas who are struggling against heavy odds and lived in massive poverty were the population of study. However, a list of 200 landless rural women engaged in different income generating activities from each village was collected from the social welfare office of Rajshahi Sadar Upazila (metropolitan office). Therefore, the population was 600. For the study, 20% respondents were randomly taken from the population. Thus, the total sample size was 120 landless rural women. The ten selected characteristics of the landless rural women were the independent variables of the study. These were age, family size, education level, annual family income, innovativeness, agricultural extension services, training received, radio/TV exposure, organizational participation and cosmopoliteness. Contrary, extent of participation of landless rural women in the income generating activities was the dependent variable. To measure participation score, 20 items of income generating activities were selected. The respondents were asked to indicate their extent of participation to each of the 20 items along with a four-point scale. “no participation”, “rare participation”, “moderately participation”, “regularly participation”. These scales of response were given scores of 0, 1, 2 and 3, respectively. The contribution score of a landless rural woman was obtained by summing her scores for all the 20 items. The participation score could range form 0–60, zero indicating no participation and 60 indicating maximum participation. For better understanding of comparative participation of landless rural women in each of the 20 activities, a participation index (PI) was computed using the following formula: PI (Participation index) = N_re×3 + N_m×2 + N_ra×1 +N_n×0 Where, N_re=No. of participants responded regularly, N_m= No. of participants responded moderately, N_ra= No. of participants responded rarely and N_n = No. of participants responded not at all. The range of score of participation index could be 0 to 360, where 0 indicating no participation and 360 indicating highest participation. An interview schedule was prepared to collect necessary and relevant information according to the objective of the study. Data were collected through face to face interviewing using interview schedule by the researcher herself during 25 March to 25 April 2016. The computer software like Microsoft Excels and SPSS were used to analyze the data. Descriptive statistical measures such as frequency, range, mean, percentage distribution, standard deviation, rank order, categories and indices etc. were used to describe and interpret the data. For exploring relationships between any two variables, Pearson?s Product Moment Correlation (r) was used.

Source of Information: J. Innov. Dev. Strategy 11(3):7-11 (December 2017)

Article Link (Online Journal): http://ggfjournals.com/e-journals archive

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Achievement/Findings:

Bangladesh is an over populated country. Women are half of total population. Over population, landlessness and unemployment are great threat to the development of Bangladesh. The findings indicated that annual family income, agriculture extension service, training exposure, organizational participation, cosmpolitness are positively correlated with participation in income generating activities of rural women. In this situation, it is necessary to introduce different developmental programs for rural women for empowering them and for being self employed by their activities. Need based training support and various income generating activities should be provided by different government and nongovernmental organizations for rural landless women.

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