Abstract:
The purpose of the study was to determine the extent of adoption of wheat
production technologies by the farmers and to explore the relationships
between farmers' selected characteristics and their adoption of wheat
production technologies. Tingaon village of Bandar union at Bandar upazila
under Narayanganj district was the locale of the study. Data were collected
from randomly selected 96 farmers by using interview schedule during 05
August to 15 September 2007.
The finding revealed that the highest proportion (81.2 percent) of the farmers
had medium adoption, 4.2 percent had low and 14.6 percent had high adoption
of wheat production technologies. Computed 'r' value depicts that among
eleven selected characteristics of the farmers, level of education, farm size,
annual income, organizational participation, extension media contact,
agricultural knowledge, attitude towards wheat cultivation and innovativeness
had significant positive relationship with the adoption of wheat production but
age was negatively correlated with the adoption of wheat production. On the
other hand, family size and cosmopoliteness had no significant relationships
with the adoption of wheat production. Majority (59.4 percent) of the farmers
faced medium extent of problems and the rest 40.6 percent faced high extent of
problem regarding adoption of wheat cultivation. Nine problems identified by
the farmers, which they had been confronting in adopting wheat production.
The major problems confronted by the farmers were inadequate irrigation in
dry season, inadequate knowledge about wheat production, lack of accurate
price, lack of sufficient machineries and tools for wheat cultivation and scarcity
of modem variety of seed, fertilizer and pesticides when they are needed.
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
