Adoption of Sustainable Agricultural Practices for Crop Production by the Farmers

Tasnuba Hadi Marufa, Md. Mostafizur Rahman

Abstract:

The study was undertaken with the objective to determine and describe the extent of adoption of sustainable agricultural practices for crop production by the farmers and to explore the relationships between the selected characteristics of the respondents and their extent of adoption of sustainable agricultural practices. The study was conducted in Cokrakhali union covering four villages of Batiaghata upazilla under Khulna district. Data were collected from 90 farmers as a sample by using a pre-tested interview schedule during the period from 3rd May to 31st May 2018. Adoption of sustainable agricultural practices which was consider dependent variable was measured by multiplying area coverage score and time score [Adoption (%) = Area coverage score × Time score]. The independent variables were measured as usual methods which are available in social arena. Analysis indicated that the highest proportion (47.78%) of the farmers had medium adoption of sustainable agricultural practices followed by 11.11% had high adoption and 41.11% had low adoption. Pearson correlation test depicted that out of 11 variables, seven named age, education, farming experience, training exposure, extension media contact, innovativeness, and training were found to have positive significant relationship with their adoption of sustainable agricultural practices.

Keywords:

Adoption, Farmers, Practices, Production, Sustainable agricultural

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