S.M.A. Ullah
1Lecturer
Dept. of Agricultural Extension Education, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh.
M.G. Farouque
Professors
Dept. of Agricultural Extension Education, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh.
M.Z. Rahman
Professors
Dept. of Agricultural Extension Education, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh.
Perception, One house one farm approach
Two unions of Mymensingh Sadar Upazila
Socio-economic and Policy
The study was conducted in Akua and Bhabokhli union under Mymensingh Sadar Upazila. From each union five villages were selected. The villages were fixed by Bangladesh Rural Development Board (BRDB). The villages under Akua union were Dhakkhinpara, Moralpara, Chukietola, Udanbarara, Moddhobarara and the villages under Bhabokhali union were Ponghagra, Churkhai, Nehaelakanda, Unayarpar and Sutiakhali. The population of the study was the farmers who received training from BRDB under One House One Farm project. Akua and Bhabkhali union BRDB trained 80 farmers. Among them sixty farmers were considered randomly as sample of the study. From each village six farmers were selected. Akua union comprised 30 farmers and Bhabkhali union comprised 30 farmers. Thus the sample size was 60. Data were collected from the farmers through personal interview during July to August, 2011. Farmers’ perception of “One House One Farm” approach was the focus variable of the study. For measuring perception of the respondents a 5- point Likert scale was used. There were 18 statements including both negative and positive against the 5-point scale to avoid the biasness of the respondents. All the statements were arranged randomly under six headings i.e. food security, economic stability, input supply, requirements, component and organizational support to help avoiding subjects’ bias in expressing their opinion. 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 the 18 statements. The total score of a respondent was determined by summing up the weights for responses against all the 18 statements. Perception score of a respondent could, thus, range from 18 to 90.
Perception Score = 5×SA + 4×A + 3×U + 2× DA + 1×SDA
Where, SA = Total number of respondents expressing their perception ‘strongly agree’ for the statement A = Total number of respondents expressing their perception ‘agree’ for the statement
U = Total number of respondents expressing their perception ‘undecided’ for the Statement DA = Total number of respondents expressing their perception ‘disagree’ for the statement SDA = Total number of respondents expressing their perception ‘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. Data were collected by the researcher himself through focus group discussion (FGD), case study and personal interview schedules from the farmers of the selected villages. Firstly two FGDs were done in two unions to identify the problems of the farmers and get an idea of the field situation. The interview was conducted with the respondents individually in their respective houses. The analysis of the data was performed using SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) software.
Bangladesh Journal of Extension Education Volume 23, No. 1&2, 2011:75-82 ISSN 1011-3916
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