The study was conducted in five FFS-IPM clubs namely Vorosapur IPM club, Ramdevpur IPM club, Ronsen IPM club, Jhalbari IPM club, and Gobindopur IPM club of Ujalkur union under Rampal upazila of Bagerhat district of Bangladesh. There were 20 members in each of the FFS-IPM clubs. Thus the population of this study included 200 farmers in the selected 10 FFS-IPM clubs. Out of 10 FFS-IPM clubs 5 clubs were selected randomly. Hence, the sample size stood 100. At first, six informal group discussion sessions were arranged in December 2013, each group contained 5-10 participants. In these sessions, the researchers discussed with the respondents about the policy of FFS-IPM club, technologies, training provided from FFSIPM club by the technical personnel of Upazila (sub-district) agriculture office, benefits and problems associated with FFSIPM club. Based on this information, necessary items were incorporated in the interview schedule which was finally used for conducting interviews with 100 respondents. Farmers were asked to furnish information about personal profile e.g. age, farming experience, educational level, family size, farm size, annual income, agricultural knowledge, cosmopoliteness, organizational participation, extension media contact and training experience. To measure the agricultural information receipt, application, and dissemination behavior of FFS farmers twenty (20) items were incorporated in the interview schedule. A five (5) points rating scales viz. not at all, little, some, high, and very high were employed against each of the twenty (20) items and a score of 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4 were assigned against the items respectively. The agricultural information receipt, application, and dissemination score of the respondents were determined by adding the scores obtained by the respondents against twenty (20) items. Thus, the agricultural information receipt, application, and dissemination score of the respondents could range from 0-80. Based on the obtained score, the respondents were classified into following three categories.
Thus, the primary data collection took place between March to May 2014 through group discussion and face-to-face interviews. Some relevant literature and empirical findings were also collected and reviewed from various secondary sources to support and supplement the results of this study. Last of all, collected data were edited and complied in order to make suitable for analysis. Statistical treatments, such as percent, mean, standard deviation (SD), frequency, range was done. The Pearson`s Product Moment Coefficient of Correlation was computed to explore the relationships of the selected factors of the study. using SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) software package (16.0 versions). Besides five percent and one percent level of probability were used in the present study.