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Farmer’s Attitude Towards Aromatic Rice Cultivation as an Indigenous Practice

M.R. Karim
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Agricultural Extension, Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University, Dinajpur

M.S. Rahman
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Agricultural Extension, Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University, Dinajpur

H. Jamil
Lecturer
Department of Social Science and Language, Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University, Dinajpur.

M.R.F. Noman
MS Student
Dept. of Agricultural Extension Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University, Dinajpur

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

The main objective of the study was to determine the attitude of the farmers towards aromatic rice cultivation. Data for the study were collected from a sample of randomly selected 56 farmers through personal interviewing during 05 to 30 December 2010. The findings revealed that majority (57.1%) of the farmers showed moderately favorable attitude towards aromatic rice cultivation. Among eight selected characteristics of the farmers only four such as education, family income and experience in aromatic rice cultivation had positive and significant relationship with their attitude towards aromatic rice cultivation. In addition, the top three problems faced by the farmers in cultivating aromatic rice were i) lower yield of aromatic rice, ii) lack of proper technology and iii) unavailability of aromatic rice seed.

Keywords: Attitude, Aromatic rice cultivation, Indigenous practice

Location: Four villages of Chirirbondor Upazila under Dinajpur district

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Program Area: Socio-economic and Policy

Commodity: Attitude, Aromatic rice

Objectives:

So, to keep up the sustainability of indigenous aromatic rice, it is necessary to determine the attitude of the farmers who have cultivated it in their fields. However, very few research studies have so far been reported in Bangladesh in this context. It was therefore, felt necessary to undertake this research study. The followings are the objectives of the study to: a) To determine the attitude of the farmers towards aromatic rice cultivation, b) To determine and describe some of the selected characteristics of the farmers, c) To explore the relationship between selected characteristics of the farmers and their attitude towards aromatic rice cultivation and d) To ascertain the problems faced by the farmers in aromatic rice cultivation.

Methodology:

The study was conducted in four villages of Chirirbondor Upazila under Dinajpur district. The total population consisted of 168 farmers in the study area. Of them, 56 respondents were selected for interview by following simple random sampling method. Data were collected from the sampled respondents through personal interview. Eight characteristics of the farmers namely age, education, family size, annual income, extension contact, training received, organizational participation and experience in aromatic rice cultivation were considered as independent variables of the study. Attitude of farmers towards aromatic rice cultivation was the dependent variable. The dependent variable was ascertained through 5-point Likert type scale having 10 statements (5 positive and 5 negative). Farmers' agreement on 10 statements were ascertained as ‘strongly agree’ ‘agree’ ‘no opinion’ ‘disagree’ and ‘strongly disagree’ with corresponding scores of 4, 3, 2, 1 and 0.Thus, for a respondent the attitude score could vary from 0 to 40. Problem confrontation of rice growers were measured through a scale containing 10 statements based on aromatic rice cultivation. The SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) computer program was used to perform data analysis.

Source of Information: Journal of Science and Technology 12(June 2014): 81-84

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Achievement/Findings:

The findings of the study showed that most of the rice growers (91 percent) had moderate favorable to favorable attitude towards aromatic rice cultivation. In respect of problem confrontation, the findings revealed that the highest proportion (37.5 percent) of the rice growers faced high problems in cultivating aromatic rice. Education, annual family income, extension media contact and experience in aromatic rice cultivation showed significant relationship with their attitude towards aromatic rice cultivation. It is true that lower yield of aromatic rice is generally a great problem in aromatic rice production. So, it should be recommended that policy makers of different government and non-government research organization should be undertaken appropriate research strategies in order to development high yielding aromatic rice.

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