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INVOLVEMENT OF RURAL WOMEN IN HOME GARDENING PRACTICES IN SHARIATPUR DISTRICT OF BANGLADESH (Pages : 1 - 5)

The prime objective of the study was to find out the involvement of rural women in home gardening practices in Shariatpur district of Bangladesh. Involvement of rural women in home gardening practices was measured by computing involvement in 11 selected operations and in 14 different vegetables production. Attempt was also made to explore the relationship between the involvements of rural women in home gardening practices with their selected characteristics. The characteristics were age, education, family size, annual family income, knowledge on homestead gardening, training experience, use of information sources, cosmopoliteness, organizational participation and attitude towards homestead gardening. Data were collected during 3 November to 10 December, 2007 from 102 randomly selected farmers of Naodoba union of Zanjira Upazila under Shariatpur district of Bangladesh. Result showed that 69.6 percent rural women had medium involvement followed by 16.7 percent had low involvement in home gardening practices. Positive significant relationships were found with rural women’s education, knowledge on home gardening, use of information sources and attitude towards home gardening and the negative significant relationships were found with rural women’s age and annual family income. So extension teaching should be given to young and middle aged women who will help them to involve in income generating activities by utilizing homestead space properly and in improving their livelihoods. Download