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PARTICIPATION OF RURAL WOMEN IN SELECTED AQUACULTURE ACTIVITIES (Pages : 21 - 27)

The main objective of this research was to assess the extent of participation of rural women in ten selected aquaculture activities. Besides, attempt was made to explore the relationships between some of the selected characteristics of the rural women and their extent of participation in selected aquaculture activities and also to determine the extent of constraints faced by the rural women in participating aquaculture activities. The study was conducted in Sherpur district where Foundation for Human Development (FHD) had been involved in aquaculture as a partner NGO of Development of Sustainable Aquaculture Project (DSAP) since 2000. Data were collected from a sample of randomly selected 100 rural women from a total of 184. A pretested interview schedule was used to collect data from the sample women from 1 September 2004 to 30 September 2004. Participation of rural women in selected aquaculture activities was the dependent variable which was measured by considering two dimensions of participation, (i) extent of participation (i.e., how frequently a respondent participated in a particular practice) and (ii) nature of participation (i.e., share of participation for a practice). The majority (67 percent) of the respondents had very low participation in aquaculture activities, while 19 percent, 3 percent, and 11 percent had low, medium and no participation, respectively. Out of ten selected aquaculture activities, the activity ‘feeding’ had highest Participation Index (PI=187) and ranked first. The activity removing weeds from ponds occupied second position in order of ranking with PI of 72 and ‘disease checking’ was in third position with PI of 56 while ‘ selling of fry/ fish’ was in last position with PI of 3. Karl Pearson’s correlation coefficient was estimated and showed that rural women’s knowledge in aquaculture and decision making ability had positive relationships with their participation in aquaculture, while personal education, average family education anDownload