ADOPTION OF SELECTED SUGARCANE CULTIVATION TECHNOLOGIES BY THE FARMERS

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to determine the extent of adoption of sugarcane cultivation technologies by the farmers to determine and describe the selected characteristics of the farmers and to explore the relationships of each of the selected characteristics of the farmers with their extent of adoption of sugarcane cultivation technologies. The study was undertaken purposively in Ishwardi upazila under Pabna district. Validated and well-structured interview schedule (questionnaire) was used to collect data from 81 farmers during 15 February, 2019 to 20 March, 2019. Descriptive statistics, Pearson Product Moment correlation were used for analysis. The majority (53.09 percent) of the respondents had into medium adoption while 17.28 percent had into low adoption category and 29.63 percent of the farmers had high adoption of sugarcane cultivation technologies. Sugarcane farm size, income from sugarcane cultivation, extension media contact, sugarcane cultivation experience and knowledge on sugarcane cultivation had significant positive relationships with the adoption of sugarcane cultivation technologies. Age, education, family size, cosmopoliteness and credit received had non-significant positive relationships with the adoption of sugarcane cultivation technologies. Therefore, it may be recommended that extension service providers by the relevant organizations like, BARI and DAE should arranged more learning events for the farmers, so that they could increase their knowledge to adopt sugarcane cultivation technologies.