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Need for Capacity Strengthening of Rural Women in Conducting Post -harvest Activities of Potato

A. R. Gazi
TCP Division, Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture, BAU Campus, Mymensingh-2202, Bangladesh

M. Z. Rahman
Depertment of Agricultural Extension Education, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh-2202, Bangladesh

M. M. Rahman
Depertment of Agricultural Extension Education, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh-2202, Bangladesh

M. E. Hossain
Soil Science Division, Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture, BAU Campus, Mymensingh-2202, Bangladesh

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

The main objective of this study was to determine the extent of need for capacity strengthening of women in conducting post-harvest activities of potato. Besides the main focus, the extent of involvement in post-harvest activities of women was identified and relationships of the selected characteristics of the women were explored with their extent of need for capacity strengthening. The study was conducted with the six groups of women (total 60) of NCDP (North West Crop Diversification Project) of three villages of Khetlal Upazila under Joypurhut district. A pre-tested interview schedule was used to collect data from the respondents during March and April 2009. Need for capacity strengthening of women was the dependent variable and the ten selected characteristics of the respondents constituted the independent variables of the study. Pearson's Product Moment Correlation Co-efficient (r) was computed to explore the relationship of the characteristics of the respondents with their extent of need for capacity strengthening. The average involvement of rural women in post-harvest activities of potato was 26.13 percent and all the respondents were involved (low to medium) in post-harvest activities of potato. The women had the highest extent (79.33 percent) of need for capacity strengthening for physical facilities and the lowest extent (66 percent) of need was for capacity strengthening in management skill. Among the characteristics of the respondents, credit received and ability to cope with uncertinity showed significant negative relationship; and organizational participation and decision making capacity in the family showed significant positive relationship with their extent of need for capacity strengthening in conducting post-harvest activities of potato. Education, dependency ratio of the family, farm size, annual family income and training exposure did not show any significant relationship with their extent of need for capacity strengthening in conducting post-harvest activities of potato. The root causes of low involvement in post-harvest activities of potato were lack of training on post-harvest activities, cold storage, processing equipments, marketing facilities and social/religious barrier. The result revealed that increased training facilities according to their needs for increasing their knowledge and skill for conducting post-harvest activities of potato can over could the situation.

Keywords: Capacity strangthaing, Post-harvest, Rural women

Location: Kusumsahar in Khetlal Upazila of Joypurhat District

Start Date: 00-03-2009

End Date: 00-04-2009

Program Area: Postharvest and Agro-processing

Commodity: Tomato

Objectives:

(a) To find out the extent of involvement of women in conducting post-harvest activities of potato;

(b) To find out the need for capacity strengthening of women in conducting post- harvest activities of potato;

(c) To explore the relationships of some selected characteristics of the women with their need for capacity strengthening in conducting post-harvest activities;

(d) To find out the problems of low involvement of women in the post-harvest activities of potato.

Methodology:

Field works of the investigation were carried out at Kusumsahar in Khetlal Upazila of Joypurhat District. The main concern of this research was for capacity strengthening of women in conducting post-harvest activities of potato. Khetlal upazila is famous for potato production. Considering the limited scope, resource and time of the study, 230 population from one study area (Kusumsahar village) was selected. Women engaged in post-harvest activities of potato were selected randomly for data collection through personal interview. The interviews were conducted with the respondents individually in their respective houses or house premises. Wherever the respondents felt any difficulty in understanding any questions, utmost care was taken to explain and clarify the same properly.

Source of Information: Bangladesh J. Nuclear Agric. 30: 113-123, 2014, ISSN 0258-7130

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Funding Source:

1. Government

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Total Budget (Tk.) :

Achievement/Findings:

• The findings indicated that most of the respondents (80 percent) had high extent of need for capacity strengthening. So, there is enough scope to provide facilities regarding post-harvest operations of potato which may improve the capacity of the rural women.

• Findings indicated that about 40 percent of the respondents had small farm size. Although this is the general situation of Bangladesh that the farm size is decreasing day by day but it is easy to aware the rural women to build their capacity for proper utilizing their small farm land.

• Most of the rural women (83.3 percent) had low organizational participation and moderate capacity to make decision in the family. Besides, need for capacity strengthening was increased with the increase of organizational participation. Thus, it indicates that in rural areas there are many scopes to involve rural women in different organizations and build their capacity towards practicing post-harvest activities of potato.

• The highest proportion (75 percent) of the women had small credit received. This was due to low organizational participation, because rural women mainly get credit facilities from different NGOs; like Grameen Bank, BRAC, Proshika, etc. However, credit received by the women had significant positive relationship with their need for capacity strengthening in conducting post-harvest activities of potato. So, it is clear that more credit facilities are helpful for strengthening their capacity in conducting post-harvest activities of potato.

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