FARMERS’ INNOVATIVENESS TO USE MODERN AGRICULTURAL MACHINERIES UNDER PANCHBIBI UPAZILA, JOYPURHAT

Abstract

The objectives of this study were to describe the selected socio-economic characteristics of the farmers, determine innovativeness of the farmers to use modern agricultural machineries and explore the relationships between farmers’ selected socioeconomic

characteristics and their innovativeness of using agricultural machineries. Data were collected from ninety-one (91) randomly selected farmers from Balighata union of Panchbibi upazila under Joypurhat district by using structured interview schedule. It is showed that slightly above than three-fourth (78.0 percent) of the farmers had medium innovativeness as compared to 12.1 and 9.9 percent having low and high innovativeness respectively on modern agricultural machineries. Co-efficient of correlation (r) analysis revealed that farmers’ farm size, area under agricultural mechanization, annual family income, training experience, extension media contact and number of machineries used had significant positive relationship with their innovativeness. However, age, education, family size and organizational participation had no significant relationships to their innovativeness of using modern agricultural machineries. The findings may help to formulate policies towards increase of the use of machineries in modernizing agricultural farming practice.