Abstract:
The purpose of the study was to determine the problems confronted by the
farmers in mushroom cuJtivation and to explore the relationship between the
selected characteristics of the farmers and their problem confrontation in
mushroom cultivation. Farmers' 16 problems in mushroom cultivation were
selected. The selected characteristics were: age. education, family size .
mushroom cultivation experience, land possession, area under mushroom
cultivation, annual family income, organizational participation,
cosmopoliteness, extension contact, mushroom training exposure, mushroom
cultivation knowledge and attitude towards mushroom cultivation. The study
was conducted in Savar upazila under Dhaka clistrict. Data were collected from
randomly selected 100 farmers using an interview schedule. Scale score was
used to determine farmers' problem in mushroom cultivation while a Problem
confrontation Index (PCJ) was used to make comparison among the 16 selected
problems. Pearson's product Moment Correlation was used for the statistical
analysis. Majority (65 percent) of the farmers were found confronted medium
problem, while 24 percent of the farmers confronted low problem and 11
percent confronted high problem in mushroom cultivation. Among the thirteen
selected characteristics of the farmers, eleven, namely age, education, land
possession, mushroom cultivation area, annual family income, organizational
participation, cosmopoliteness, extension contact, training exposure in
mushroom cultivation, mushroom cultivation knowledge, and attitude towards
mushroom cultivation showed significant negative relationship with their
problem confrontation in mushroom cultivation. The remaining two
characteristics i.e. family size and experience in mushroom cultivation had no
significant relationship with their problem confrontation. On the basis of
Problem Confrontation Index (PCI) "boundness of the farmers to supply
commodities to middle man in low price" ranked first which is followed by
'high price of spawn, 'complexity to get mushroom cultivation credit, low
demand in the local market while lack of knowledge on proper doses of
pesticide for pest control of mushroom ranked last
Description:
A Thesis
Submitted to the Faculty of Agriculture,
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka,
in partial fulfillment of the requirements
for the degree of
MASTER OF SCIENCE
IN
AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AND INFORMATION SYSTEM
