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PARTICIPATION OF LANDLESS RURAL WOMEN IN INCOME GENERATING ACTIVITIES OF SADAR UPAZILA UNDER RAJSHAHI DISTRICT (Pages : 7 - 11)

The study was conducted to determine the extent of participation of landless rural women in income generating activities and to explore relationships among the selected characteristics of them with their participation in income generating activities. The study also outlined the problems faced by the landless rural women during their participation in various activities. More than three-fourths (78.33 percent) of the landless rural women faced medium problems while 12.5 percent low and 9.16 percent had faced high problems for participation in different income generating activities. Correlation analysis indicated that the characteristics of the landless rural women namely age, annual family income, innovativeness, frequency of visit to agricultural extension services, training received, Radio/TV watching/listening, organizational participation and cosmopolitanism had significant relationship of which annual family income, frequency of visit to agricultural extension services, training received, Radio/TV watching /listening, organizational participation, cosmopolitanism had positive relationship and two characteristics namely age and farm size had negative relationship with their extent of participation in income generating activities. Download