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Adoption of Selected High Yielding Varieties of Rice by the Farmers of Rajpat Union Under Kasiani Upazila in Gopalgonj District

KAMAL HOSSAIN
MS. Student, Reg. No. 25280/00385
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AND INFORMATION SYSTEM, SHER-E-BANGLA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, DHAKA

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

The study was conducted at Kasianiupazila under Gopalgonj district during January to December 2006 to determine and describe the extent of adoption of high yielding varieties (HYV) of rice. Forty Nine percent (49%) of the HYV rice farmers had medium adoption compared to 25% having low adoption and 26% having high adoption. BRRI Dhan-29 variety was accepted mostly by the farmers and the adoption index was 11680.87. Out of ten independent variables, farmers’ age, level of education, annual income, contact with extension staff, attitude towards HYV rice and knowledge on HYV rice cultivation had significant positive relationship with their adoption of HYV rice. On the other hand family size, farm size, organizational participation and cosmopolitness of farmers had no relationship with their adoption of selected HYV rice cultivation. Farmers indicated that there were 15 problems, which hindered the adoption of selected HYV rice. Among the problems three important problems were: High price of fertilizer, High price of HYV seeds, Requires of high amount of fertilizer in rice crops.

Keywords: Adoption, High yielding varieties, Rice, Farmers

Location: Kasianiupazila under Gopalgonj district

Start Date: 00-01-2006

End Date: 00-06-2006

Program Area: Knowledge Management

Commodity: Rice

Objectives:

1. To determine and describe the extent of adoption of high yielding varieties of rice by the farmers, the selected varieties are (a) BR26 (b) BRRI Dhan-28 and (c) BRRI Dhan-29

2. To determine and describe some selected characteristics of the farmers:

Age, education, Family size,Farm size, Annual Income, Contact with extension staff, Organizational participation, Cosmoploiteness, Attitude , Knowledge

3. To identify the problems faced by the farmers.

4. To explore the relationship between the selected characteristics of the farmers and their adoption of high yielding varieties of rice.

Methodology:

The study was conducted at Kasianiupazila under Gopalgonj district during January to December 2006 to determine and describe the extent of adoption of high yielding varieties (HYV) of rice.This upazila has 14 Unions out of them Rajpat Union was selected randomly. Rajpat Union consists of six villages. Again out of six villages two village namely Rajpat and Shilta were randomly selected.An up to date list of all farm family heads of the selected villages were prepared with the help of Sub-Assistant Agricultural Officer. The list comprised a total of 503 farmers in the study area. These farmers constituted the population of this study. There were 283 farmers in Rajpat and 220 farmers in shilta. Twenty (20) percent of the population of each village was randomly selected as representative sample by using random number (kerlinger, 1973). Thus, the sample size for Rajpat was 56 and that of shilta was 44 making the total sample size of 100 farmers. In addition to that, 2 pereent of the population was selected randomly and proportionately from each of selected villages. Thus, the additional sample, so drawn stood 10 farmers, which were included in the reserve list. In case, the individuals included in the original samples were not available or not found suitable at the time of data collection, thefarmers of the reserve list were used for the purpose.A variable is any characteristic, which can be assumed varying different values in successive individual cases (Ezekiel and Fox, 1959). A well organized piece of research usually contains at least two important variables, viz. an independent and a dependent variable. An independent variable is that factor which is maintained by the researcher in his/her attempt to ascertain its relationship to an observed phenomenon. A dependent variable is that factor which appears, disappears or varies as the researcher introduces, removes or varies the independent variable (Townsend, 1953).The collected data were compiled, tabulated, coded and analyzed in accordance with the objectives of the study. Qualitative data were quantified by mean of suitable scoring techniques. The statistical measures such as number and percentage distribution were used for describing the variables of the study. In order to explore the relationships between the knowledge and adoption of HYV rice and the selected characteristics of the farmers, the Pearson Product Moment Correlation was computed.

Source of Information: MS. Thesis, SEMESTER: JANUARY- JUNE, 2006, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AND INFORMATION SYSTEM, SHER-E-BANGLA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, DHAKA

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Achievement/Findings:

Forty Nine percent (49%) of the HYV rice farmers had medium adoption compared to 25% having low adoption and 26% having high adoption. BRRI Dhan-29 variety was accepted mostly by the farmers and the adoption index was 11680.87. Out of ten independent variables, farmers’ age, level of education, annual income, contact with extension staff, attitude towards HYV rice and knowledge on HYV rice cultivation had significant positive relationship with their adoption of HYV rice. On the other hand family size, farm size, organizational participation and cosmopolitness of farmers had no relationship with their adoption of selected HYV rice cultivation. Farmers indicated that there were 15 problems, which hindered the adoption of selected HYV rice. Among the problems three important problems were: High price of fertilizer, High price of HYV seeds, Requires of high amount of fertilizer in rice crops.

Knowledge Management: Thesis