Green Global
Foundation   Journal
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FARMERS’ PRACTICE IN POND FISH FARMING (Pages : 26 - 29)

The purpose of this research was to determine farmers’ practice in pond fish farming and also to explore the relationship of farmers’ selected characteristics with their practice on pond fish farming. Data were collected from 101 pond farmers from 4 villages of Kaijuri Union under Faridpur Sadar Upazilla by using a pretested interview schedule during 20th March to 12th April 2013. Descriptive statistics such as mean, standard deviation, range and percentage were used to describe the variables. Pearson product moment correlation coefficient was used to measure the relationship of the variables. The study revealed that about 61.4 percent of the pond farmers had medium practice, while 27.7 percent farmers had low practice and only 10.9 percent farmers had high practice. Pond size, commercialization and training exposure of the pond farmers had positive significant relationship and problem faced had negative relationship with their practice in pond fish farming.Download