EFFECTIVENESS OF RESULT DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM IN THE TRANSFER OF BRRI dhan50

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to ascertain the effectiveness of result demonstration program in the transfer of BRRI dhan50 and also to explore the relationships between effectiveness of result demonstration program in the transfer of BRRI dhan50 and some of the selected characteristics of the farmers. The study was conducted in three villages (Narikelbaria,Vupotipur and Chando) of Jhenaidah Sadar Upazilla under Jhenaidah district. Data were collected from a sample of randomly selected 90 farmers from 1165 farmers. The data were collected by using a structured interview schedule during 24 July 2014 to 20 August 2014. Pearson‟s Product Moment co-efficient of correlation (r) was computed in order to explore relationships between the dependent and independent variables. The findings of the study demonstrated that result demonstration program showed 64.40 percent medium effectiveness while 28.90 percent showed low and 6.70 percent showed high effectiveness to the transfer of BRRI dhan50. Among twelve characteristics of the farmer farm size, annual income, training exposure, innovativeness, personality, motivation had significant positive relationships with effectiveness of result demonstration program in the transfer of BRRI dhan50, while the other characteristics showed no significant relationships.