Green Global
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PROBLEM CONFRONTATION OF THE FFS FARMERS IN PRACTICING IPM (Pages : 12 - 17)

This study was conducted farmers in different unions of Bancharampur upazila under Brahmanbaria district during September 15 to October 30, 2006 to determine and describe the problem confrontation in practicing IPM by the FFS farmers. The study also explored the relationships between the selected characteristics of the FFS farmers’ with their problem confrontation. The selected characteristics included 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 from the 6 FFS. In respect of problem confrontation, the findings highlighted that the maximum proportion (43.34 %) of respondents had high while 30.83 % medium and 25.83 % low problem confrontation in practicing IPM. The literacy and knowledge of the farmers about IPM and agricultural knowledge had significant negative correlation with their problem confrontation in practicing IPM. The variable farm size and annual income had a significant positive correlation with their problem confrontation. Rest of the variables, namely age, family size, contact with change agent,Download