CONSTRAINTS FACED BY THE FARMERS IN THE CULTIVATION OF OIL SEED AND PULSE

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the farmers' constraints faced in oil seed and pulse crop cultivation and also to explore the relationship between the selected characteristics of the farmers and their constraints faced. The study was conducted in purposively selected 3 villages of Dubchancbia upazila under Bogra district. All the oil seed and pulse crop cultivators of the study area were constituted the population of the study. One hundred oil seed and pulse crop growers were selected randomly as the sample of the study by taking proportionately 20 percent from three selected villages. Data were collected from these farmers by using an interview schedule during 25 June to 30 July 2007. Co-efficient of correlation (r) was computed in order to explore the relationship between the selected characteristics of the respondents and their constraints faced in oil seed and pulse cultivation. The findings revealed that 87 percent of the farmers faced medium to high constraints, while only 13 percent respondents faced low constraints in oil seed and pulse cultivation. Land possessions, cropping intensity, land under oil seed and pulse cultivation, extension contact, knowledge on oil seed and pulse cultivation and attitude towards oil seed and pulse crop cultivation of the farmers were found to have significant negative relationship with their constraints faced in oil seed and pulse cultivation. But age, education, family size, net cropped area, total cropped area and annual family income of the farmers had no significant relationship with their constraints faced in oil seed and pulse cultivation.