Abstract:
Bangladesh is a agriculture based country. Most of the people of our country is
related with agriculture. But due to low knowledge on agricultural operation or
modern agricultural machineries operation the farmer faced huge loss on crop
production. That’s why the modern agricultural machineries need in agriculture
sector to increase crop production. The modern machineries use in agricultural
operation is called mechanization. The purpose of the study was to describe the
selected socioeconomic characteristic of the farmers; to determine the extent of
farmers’ knowledge on agricultural machineries; and to explore the relationship of
the selected characteristics of farmers on their knowledge on modern agricultural
machineries. The study was undertaken purposely in Roumari Upazila under
Kurigram district. Validated and well-structured interview schedule was used to
collect data from 110 farmers. Data were collected by a pre tested interview
schedule during 16 jun 2022 to 15 july 2022. Simple and direct questions with
different scales were used to obtain information. Descriptive statistics, multiple corelation
were
used
for
the
analysis
of
collected
data.
The
majority
47.72
percent
of
the
respondents
had
low
knowledge
followed
by
21.81
percent
had
high
knowledge
and
35.45 percent of the farmers had medium knowledge on agricultural
machineries. Among 10 selected characteristics of the farmers 6 characteristics
namely, education, quantity of modern machinery, attitude of farmers towards using
modern agricultural machinery, annual family income, training exposure and
extension media contact, had positive significant relationship with their knowledge
on modern agricultural machineries but rest of four namely age, farm size,
experience in farming, organizational participation had no significant relationship
with their knowledge on modern agricultural machinery. Findings leads to
conclusion that farmers’ socioeconomic characteristics are important for acquiring
knowledge on modern agricultural machineries and concerned authority should
consider these characteristics to take necessary steps for improving knowledge of
farmers on modern agricultural machineries.
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
