Green Global
Foundation   Journal
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ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS OF THE FFS FARMERS IN PRACTICING IPM (Pages : 17 - 21)

The study was conducted at Bancharampur upazila under Brahmarbaria district to determine and describe the environmental awareness of the farmers’ of Farmer Field School (FFS) in practicing integrated pest management (IPM) during September 15 to October 30, 2006. The study also explored the relationship between the selected characteristics of the FFS farmers’ and their overall environmental awareness. The selected characteristics included in the structured questionnaire for study were age, literacy, family size, farm size, annual income, contact with change agent, organizational participation, cosmopoliteness, knowledge about IPM and agricultural knowledge. Data were collected from a sample of randomly selected 120 FFS farmers. In respect of environmental awareness, the findings revealed that the highest proportion (76.67 %) of the respondents had medium to high awareness while only 23.33 % of them had low awareness. The literacy and knowledge of the farmers about IPM and agricultural knowledge had significant positive correlation with their environmental awareness. Rest of the variables had no significant relationship with their environmental awareness.Download