Adoption of Different Farming Technologies by the Vegetable Farmers of Chapainawabganj, Bangladesh

Mujibur Rahman Khan, Md. Ferdous Parvez, Md. Samiul Haque, Farhan Masud Tassine, Md. Milon Ali, Tunjara Khatun

Abstract:

This research work is focused on analyzing the socio-economic characteristics of the farmers in relation to adoption of farming technologies by vegetable farmers of Chapainawabganj. Appropriate scales were developed to measure the dependent and independent variables. Data were collected randomly from selected 63 farmers from different unions of Chapainawabganj sadar upazila by utilizing a prepared questionnaire. Descriptive statistics such as mean, standard deviation, range and percentage were used to describe the variables. Attempt was also made to explore the relationship between selected characteristics and their adoption of farming technologies in vegetable cultivation. This study expressed that, majority of the respondents (63.5%) in the study area were young to middle aged. In case of education, 76.2% of the respondents have primary to higher level of education. Among the respondents, 77.8% had small farm size, 77.8% of the respondent had low annual income and 79.4% of farmers had no training experiences, so the farm size, annual income and training exposure of the respondents were low. The findings indicate that 60.3% of the respondents were experienced vegetable farmers and 76.2% showed innovativeness in vegetable farming. Among the farmers, 90.5% occasionally and 7.9% rarely adopted vegetable farming technologies. Rest 1.6% rarely adopted vegetable farming technologies which includes using of inorganic fertilizers with organic fertilizers, using tractor and different types of sprayers and smart phones occasionally. Regression analysis revealed that education and farm size of the respondents positively contributed to adoption of vegetable farming technologies significantly at 95% level of confidence. According to the findings, most of the respondents exhibited medium innovativeness, which influenced technology adoption positively; this indicates that, the greater the farmers' innovativeness with various technologies, the greater the use and adoption of vegetable farming technologies. Therefore, the current study could contribute to improve better policies aimed at expediting the adoption of various farming technologies by vegetable farmers.

Keywords:

Adoption, Farming technologies, Innovativeness, Socio-economic characteristics, Vegetable cultivation

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