Abstract:
The main purpose of this study was to have an understanding on the usefulness of
teaching methods used tinder revised extension approach of DAE. The relationship
between selected characteristics of the fhrmers (age, level of education, family size,
lhrni size, agricultural knowledge, annual income, cosmopoliteness, innovativeness,
organizational participation and attitude towards modem agricultural technology) and
the usefulness of' teaching methods was also explored. l3eside this an attempt was
made to compare the perceived usefulness of teaching methods by the farmers and
Sub-assistant Agriculture Officer (SAAO).
Data were obtained from 100 lhrmers of four villages namely Soyedpur, Komolapur,
l)oyara. and Kamairbag of Kalirbazar Union of sadar upazila tinder Comilla district,
with the help of interview schedule. Appropriate scales were developed in order to
measure the concerned variables. Coffelation co-efficient was computed to explain
the relationship between the concern dependent and independent variables and
individual sample I-test was computed to explore the comparison between the
perceived usefulness of teaching methods by the farmers and SAAO.
The findings revealed that 52 percent of the respondents perceived medium
usefulness 29 percent perceived high usefulness and only 19 percent perceived low
usefulness of different teaching methods.
The findings also revealed that level of education, farm size, agricultural knowledge,
annual income, cosmopoliteness, innovativeness, organizational participation and
attitude towards modem agricultural technology had significant positive relationship
with the usefulness of teaching methods. However, age and family size oftlie farmers
had no significant relationship with the usefulness of teaching methods. A significant
difference between the usefulness of teaching methods as perceived by the Farmers
and by the SAAO was also revealed by the study.
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
