ADOPTION OF SELECTED TRANSPLANTED AMAN TECHNOLOGIES BY THE FARMERS

Abstract

The main purpose of the study was to determine the extent of adoption of selected T. Aman technologies and to explore its relationship with the selected characteristics of the farmers. The study was conducted in two villages of Pingna union under Sarishabari upazilla of Jamalpur district. Data were collected from randomly selected 130 T. Aman growers during 12'h August to 18'" October, 2006. Findings revealed that overwhelming majority (80 %) of the farmers were found to have medium to high adoption while only 20 % farmers belonged to low adoption of selected T. Aman technologies. Data also revealed that among eight selected characteristics, education, farm size, annual family income, organizational participation and extension media contact were found to have positive significant relationships with their adoption of selected T. Aman technologies. Other variables namely age, commercialization and cosmopolitness had no signiticant relationship with their adoption of selected T. Aman technologies.