Abstract:
Climate-smart rice technologies is an effective approach of increasing rice
productivity, building resilience and minimizing greenhouse gas emissions. The
objectives of the study were to estimate the extent of adoption of climate-smart rice
technologies, to determine and describe some selected characteristics of the farmers
and to determine the determinants of the adoption of climate-smart rice technologies
by the farmers. The study was conducted at three villages of Madaripur district. Data
were collected from randomly selected 100 climate-smart rice technology user
farmers. A well-structured interview questionnaire was used to collect data.
Descriptive statistics and multiple regressions were employed for analysis. The
findings revealed that more than half (56%) of the farmers had medium adoption as
compared to 14% and 30% had low and high adoption of climate-smart rice
production technologies respectively. Farmers organizational participation,
accessibility to extension services and knowledge on climate smart rice technologies
were key determinants of the adoption of climate-smart rice technologies and all the
variables collectively explained 32.1% variation in the adoption of climate-smart rice
technologies. To increase the adoption of climate-smart rice technologies, the policy
makers could invest on improving capacity of farmers organizations, enhancing
farmers accessibility to extension services and providing training with a view to
familiar with the latest climate-smart rice technologies.
Description:
A Thesis
Submitted to Department of Entomology,
Faculty of Agriculture.
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University,
Dhaka-
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
MASTERS OF SCIENCE (MS)
IN
AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION & INFORMATION SYSTEM
