Green Global
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FARMERS’ ATTITUDE TOWARDS USE OF DOLOCHUN FOR CROP PRODUCTION (Pages : 5 - 8)

The purpose of this study was to determine and describe the attitude of the farmers towards the use of dolochun for crop production. The study was conducted in three unions under Domar upazila of Nilphamari district of northern Bangladesh. Data were collected from randomly selected 104 farmers with a structured interview schedule. The attitude of the farmers towards the use of dolochun for crop production was examined with 5-point Likert scale. Nine selected characteristics (i.e. age, educational qualification, family size, farm size, annual family income, training exposure, organizational participation, extension media contact and agricultural knowledge) of the farmers constituted the independent variables where farmer’s attitude towards the use of dolochun for crop production was the dependent variable of the study. The findings revealed that the majority of the farmers (58.7 percent) had ‘moderately favorable’ attitude towards the use of dolochun while 22.1 percent and 19.2 percent had ‘highly favorable’ and ‘slightly favorable’, attitude towards the use of dolochun for crop production, respectively. Among nine selected characteristics of the respondents, ‘educational qualification’, ‘training exposure’, ‘organizational participation’, ‘extension media contact’ and ‘agricultural knowledge’ had positive significant relationship, while the ‘age’ and ‘family size’ of the respondent had negative significant relationships with their attitude towards the use of dolochun for crop production. The findings are fairly satisfactory regarding attitude towards use of dolochun and this favorable attitude of the respondents need to be tickled down to form a positive communal attitude to their respective locale for overall agricultural development. Download