ADOPTION OF WHEAT PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES BY THE FARMERS OF A VILLAGE OF NARAYANGANJ DISTRICT

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.