Attitude of Farmers’ towards Practicing of Agricultural Farm Machineries for Crop Production

Md. Ruhul Amin, Md. Mostafizur Rahman

Abstract:

The study was undertaken with the objective to determine and describe the extent of farmers‟ attitude towards practicing of agricultural farm machineries for crop production and to explore the relationships between the selected characteristics of the respondents and their extent of attitude. The study was conducted in 8 different villages of Begumpur and Titudah union of Chuadanga Sadar upazila under Chuadanga districts. Data were collected from 104 farmers as a sample by using a pre-tested interview schedule during the period from September to October, 2020. Attitude of the farmers towards practicing of agricultural farm machineries was the focus variable of this study which was measured by four-point Likert type modified scale. The independent variables were measured as usual methods which are available in social arena. Analysis indicated that the highest proportion (60.58%) of the farmers had moderately favorable attitude towards practicing of agricultural farm machineries followed by 20.19% had highly friendly attitude and only 19.23% had low favorable attitude towards practicing of agricultural machineries. Pearson correlation test depicted that out of 12 variables education, organizational participation, training received and extension media contact had significant positive relationships and three characteristics namely age, family size and subsidy received had significant negative relationships with the farmer‟s attitude towards practicing of agricultural farm machineries while farm size, annual income, credit received, ownership of agricultural machinery and capacity of repairing the farmer‟s had no significant relationships.

Keywords:

Attitude, Farm, Farmers, Machineries, Practicing

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