CONSTRAINTS FACED BY THE FARMERS IN VEGETABLE PRODUCTION

Abstract

The research examines the extent of constraints faced by the farmers in vegetable production and to explore the contribution of the selected characteristics of the farmers to their constraints faced in vegetable production. The locale of the study was five villages of Sangalshi union under Nilphamari Sadar upazila of Nilphamari District. Data were collected from 109 vegetable cultivators from 04 April, 2017 to 03 May, 2017. Descriptive statistics, multiple regressions (β) were used for analysis. The highest proportion (66.10 %) of the respondent had medium constraints in vegetable production, 18.30 percent had low constraints and 15.6 percent had high constraints in vegetable production. According to Constraints Faced Index (CFI), high cost of labor (367), lack of knowledge about post harvest technologies (364) and high fluctuation in price (365) were highest extent of constraints in case of input constraints, technical constraints and marketing constraints in vegetable production respectively. Among the variables, level of education, effective farm size, annual family income, training exposure, extension media contact, knowledge on vegetable production technologies of the farmers had significant contribution to their constraints faced in vegetable production. These six variables combinedly contributed 79.30% (R2=0.7930) of the variation in explaining constraints faced by the farmers in vegetable production.