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M.R. Karim*
Department of Agricultural Extension, Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University Dinajpur 5200, Bangladesh

T. Fardaus
Department of Agricultural Extension, Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University Dinajpur 5200, Bangladesh

M.R. Khan
Department of Agricultural Extension, Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University Dinajpur 5200, Bangladesh

M.R.F. Noman
Department of Agricultural Extension, Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University Dinajpur 5200, Bangladesh

S. Huda
Department of Agricultural Extension, Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University Dinajpur 5200, Bangladesh

The purpose of the study was to determine the knowledge of the tribal women on biochar promotion for homestead gardening. The research study was conducted in Nawabgang Upazila under Dinajpur district. A pretested and structured interview schedule was used to collect data from the tribal women during the period 16 August to 17 September, 2017. Co-efficient of correlation (r) was computed in order to explore the relationship between the ten selected characteristics of the tribal women and their knowledge on biochar. Findings indicated that majority of the tribal women (36.30%) had high knowledge followed by low knowledge (34.30%) and medium knowledge (29.40%) on biochar promotion for homestead gardening. Correlation analyses indicated that five selected characteristics such as level of education, farm size, annual family income, training received and extension media contact of the tribal women had positive significant relationship with their knowledge on biochar for homestead gardening. However, the selected characteristics such as age, family size, decision making ability, organizational participation and fatalism had no significant relationships with their knowledge on biochar for homestead gardening. The major problem faced by the tribal women on biochar promotion was found on ‘lack of woody fuel’ (Problem Faced Index value = 223). The lowest problem of tribal women faced on ‘complexity on storage’ (Problem Faced Index value = 50). 

  Knowledge, Tibal women, Biochar promotion, Homestead gardening
  Nawabgang Upazila under Dinajpur district. A pretested and structured interview schedule was used to collect data from the tribal women
  16-08-2017
  17-09-2017
  Knowledge Management
  Biochar

Since 2013, CCDB (Christian Commission for Development in Bangladesh) has been fostering the Bangladesh Biochar Initiative program that will help the energy issue with efficient cookstoves and simultaneously producing biochar applicable to small scale homestead farmin gas environment-friendly agriculture. From that point of view, the researchers attempted the research study with the objectives: a) to describe the selected characteristics of the tribal women; b) to determine the extent of knowledge of tribal women on biochar; c) to explore the relationship between selected characteristics of the tribal women and their knowledge on biochar promotion; and d) to assess the problems faced by the tribal women in biochar promotion activities.

Locale of the study and sampling: The study was conducted in two unions, Dawadpur and Mohammudpur of Nawabganj Upazila under Dinajpur district where biochar initiative activities have been implementing by CCDB. Bangladesh Biochar Initiatives with the support of Christian Commission for Development in Bangladesh (CCDB) has been implementing in the study area for the socio-economic development of the tribal women such Santal and Orau. An updated list of 276 tribal women was collected from CCDB office record. Among them a sample of 102 tribal women was selected by random sampling method. 

Measurement of selected characteristics and focus issue: The selected characteristics of the tribal women such as age, level of education, family size, farm size, annual income, decision making ability, organizational participation, training received, fatalism and extension media contact were measured by following appropriate techniques and standard scales. Knowledge on biochar promotion for homestead gardening was the focus issue of the study. The knowledge level of a respondent women was measured by asking 18 questions related to biochar production and its application in homestead gardening. Different scores such as 2, 3, 4 and 5 were assigned for the questions based on the nature of each question (Karim et al. 2011). For correct response, the respondents were given full of the assigned scores. Thus, the possible knowledge on biochar of the respondents could be ranged from 0 to 66. Where, 0 indicated no knowledge and 66 indicated very high level of knowledge on biochar promotion for homestead gardening. 

Measurements of problems faced by the tribal women in biochar promotion: Eight problems were selected faced by tribal women in promoting biochar. The respondents were asked to response on four alternatives responses as ‘not at all’, ‘low’, ‘medium’ and ‘high’for each of 8 selected problems. Scores were assigned to those alternative responses as 0, 1, 2 and 3, respectively. To ascertain the comparison among the problems, Problem Faced Index (PFI) was computed by using the following formula which was adopted from Rahman et al. (2014): PFI = Pn× 0 + Pl× 1 + Pm× 2 + Ph× 3

Where, PFI = Problem Faced Index Pn = Number of respondents influenced ‘not at all’ Pl= Number of respondents influenced ‘low’ Pm = Number of respondents influenced ‘medium’ Ph = Number of respondents influenced ‘high’ 

  Journal of Science and Technology 18 (June 2020): 25-32
  
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Around more than half of the tribal women had low to medium knowledge on biochar promotion for homestead gardening. Therefore, there should take necessary education and campaign programme to increase the knowledge level on biochar. Care should be taken to increase tribal women participation in various government and non-government organizations. In addition, proper steps should be given to maximize individual, group and mass contact methods like farm and home visit, results and method demonstrations and television programs on biochar benefits and opportunities. The concern authorities should conduct more training programs on biochar promotion for homestead gardening. Furthermore, the highest problem faced by the tribal women was found on ‘unavailability of woody fuel’. A suggestion is provided to use other raw materials such as leaves, straw, jute sticks, cowdung or bamboo for biochar production.

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