Abstract:
The main purpose of this study was to determine the Vegetable Farmers‟ Attitude
Towards Food Safety and explore the contribution of the selected characteristics of the
growers on their Attitude Towards Food Safety. The selected characteristics were age,
education, family size, farm size, annual family income, training exposure, extension
contact, time spent in vegetable farming and cosmopoliteness. Data were gathered
from proportionally and randomly selected 107 respondents (vegetable farmers) of
three villages of Mirzapur union of Shailokupa upazila under Jhenaidah district by
using a pretested interview schedule during the period of 1
II
st
October to 30 December,
2019. Apart from descriptive statistical methods, multiple regressions analysis was
used in order to analyze the data. Findings indicated that the majority (48.59%) of the
respondents had favorable attitude towards food safety, 31.78% had unfavorable
attitude towards food safety and 19.63% had neutral attitude towards food safety. Out
of nine selected characteristics of the respondents, education, training exposure,
extension contact and cosmopoliteness had positive significant contribution with their
attitude towards food safety. The rest of the variables namely: age, family size, farm
size, annual family income and time spent in vegetable farming did not show any
significant contribution with their attitude towards food safety.
Description:
A Thesis
Submitted to the Department of Agricultural Extension and Information System
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka
In partial fulfilment of the requirements
for the degree of
MASTER OF SCIENCE (MS)
IN
AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AND INFORMATION SYSTEM
