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Adoption and Seed Storage Technology of Wheat in Northern Part of Bangladesh

M. S. Rahman
Scientific Officer
Agricultural Economics Division, BARI Joydebpur, Gazipur-1701

Moniruzzaman
Senior Scientific Officer
Agricultural Economics Division, BARI Joydebpur, Gazipur-1701

Mahmuda Akter
Scientific Officer
Agricultural Economics Division, BARI Joydebpur, Gazipur-1701

Sahadat Hossain
Chief Scientific Officer
Agricultural Economics Division, BARI Joydebpur, Gazipur-1701

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

The study was conducted in two major wheat growing areas of Bangladesh to determine the adoption level and factors affecting the adoption of wheat production practices in the study areas. The results revealed that most of the farmers (60.91%) in the study areas were cultivating Shatabdi variety of wheat. Adoption level of seed rate, TSP and MoP application were found to be very low. On the other hand, production practices like time of wheat sowing and number of irrigation were highly adopted by the farmers. Most of the farmers (69.09%) applied TSP below the recommended dose while 81.82% of the farmers applied MoP over the recommended dose. Farmers faced economic losses due to excess use of seed and fertilizer in the study areas. The study also revealed that there is a positive and significant relationship between adoption and the variables like education, experience and extension contact. Farmers also faced some problems like lack of proper information and technical knowledge that hinder the adoption. Most of the farmers of Dinajpur stored wheat seed for next year use. Adoption gaps are needed to be eliminated to enhance the productivity as well as net return of wheat cultivation.

Keywords: Adoption, Seed storage technology, Profitability

Location: Dinajpur and Thakurgaon

Start Date: 00-01-2011

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Program Area: Socio-economic and Policy

Non-commodity: Adoption of technology

Objectives:

i. To determine the level of adoption of improved wheat production technology

ii. To find out the factors affecting the adoption decision

iii. To find out the impact of adopting some of the improve production practices

iv. To identify the technology of seed storage in the study areas

v. To identify the problems that limits the acceptability of improved wheat production practices.

Methodology:

A total of 110 sample taking 55 from each district were selected for the study by using random sampling technique.The study was mainly based on primary data collected through face to face interview during the month of January to February, 2011. Collected data were then summarized, tabulated and analyzed to fulfill the objectives of the study. Mostly descriptive statistics like average, percentage were used to achieve the objectives of the study. The level of adoption was measured by computing adoption scores for recommended technologies. Score given to each technology that varied from 1 to 0 according to the adoption of the suggested technology. A respondent farmer could get a score of “1” for adopting the technology. On the other hand, farmer could receive a score of “0” for not adopting the technology. The mean score became the index of level adoption of the recommended technologies. On the basis of the score that earned by the farmers were categorized as high, medium, low and very low level of adoption respectively.To find out the factors responsible for adoption of wheat production practices a multiple regression analysis was conducted considering pooled adoption scores of a farmer as dependent variable.

Source of Information: Annual Research Report, Agricultural Economics Division, BARI

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Achievement/Findings:

Highest 60.91% of the farmers in both the study areas were grown Shatabdi variety followed by Prodip (34.55%). More than 67% of the farmers of Thakurgaon grown Shatabdi variety while it was about 54.55% in Dinajpur district. Adoption level of seed rate, TSP and MoP application were found to be very low. On the other hand, production practices like time of wheat sowing and number of irrigation were highly adopted by the farmers. Most of the farmers (69.09%) applied TSP below the recommended dose while 81.82% of the farmers applied MoP over the recommended dose. Farmers faced economic losses due to excess use of seed and fertilizer in the study areas. Results of the regression analysis showed that 53% of variation in adoption could be explained by the independent variables included in the model. The co-efficient of education, experience and extension contact were significant and positively related with the adoption of wheat production practices. Highest 63.64% of the respondents in Dinajpur store wheat as seed for next year use while only 18.18% farmers of Thakurgaon stored seed for future use. On an average, about 41% of the farmers stored wheat seed for their use. Highest 30% of the farmers used Polythin bag to stored wheat seed followed by drum (12.73%) and cement bag (1.82%).

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