ADOPTION OF RECOMMENDED POTATO CULTIVATION PRACTICES

Abstract

The main objective of this study was to determine the extent of adoption of recommended potato cultivation practices and to explore the relationships between the selected charactenstics of potato farmers and their adoption of recommended practices. The study was conducted at Gazaria thana of Munshigonj district during I 0 November to 29 January 2008.The population of the study was 580 potato farmers from which a sample of 116 potato growers was selected using a simple random sampling method. Correlation of coefficient was to explore the relationship between the concerned variables. The overall adoption of recommended practices by the potato growers showed that 48 percent of the potato farmers fell under medium adoption and 36 percent under high adoption category while 16 percent of potato farmers followed lower rate of adoption of recommended practices in potato cultivation. There was a significant positive relationship between each of the six characteristics such as level of education, farm size, annual income, organizational participation, extension contact and innovativeness of the potato farmers with their adoption of recommended practices in potato cultivation. The cosmopoliteness and farming experience of the potato farmers had no significant relationship with their adoption of recommended practices in potato cultivation.