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ADOPTION OF HOMESTEAD VEGETABLE PRODUCTION TECHNIQUES BY THE RURAL WOMEN IN SOME SELECTED AREAS OF BANGLADESH (Pages : 27 - 30)

The main purpose of the study was to determine the extent of adoption of homestead vegetable production techniques by the rural women. It has further explored the relationship between the selected characteristics of the rural women and their adoption of homestead vegetable production techniques. The study was conducted in five randomly selected villages of Feni District. Pearson’s product moment correlation co-efficient was used to explore the relationship between the selected characteristics of the respondents and their adoption of homestead vegetable production techniques. Findings revealed that the majority of the respondents are medium adopters (40 percent) of the homestead vegetable production techniques, while 35.79 percent of the respondents are low adopters. Only 24.21 percent of the respondents are high homestead vegetable production adopters. Among the ten selected characteristics, extension contact, organizational participation, farm size and agricultural knowledge had significant positive relationship with the adoption of homestead vegetable production techniques. The other selected characteristics such as age, level of education, training exposure, decision making ability and problem faced in homestead vegetable production had no significant relationship with the adoption of homestead vegetable production techniques. Download