Determinants and Impacts of Recommended Farming Technology Adoption in the Char Lands of Northern Bangladesh
Nur-E-Shahrin Nurani
Department of Agricultural Extension & Information System, Sher –e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Thahamina Bagum
Department of Agricultural Extension & Information System, Sher –e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Aysha Akter
Department of Agricultural Extension Education, Sylhet Agricultural University, Sylhet, Bangladesh.
Muhammad Humayun Kabir *
Department of Agricultural Extension & Information System, Sher –e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
Despite the importance of adopting modern agricultural technologies to improve rural livelihoods, there lacks of studies specially focus on char farmers. The study aims to investigate the use of recommended technology by the farmers of Char land and the factors that significantly influence farmers’ use of recommended farming technology. Data were collected from randomly selected 150 farmers live in the char land of northern Bangladesh. A face to face interview schedule followed by a structured questionnaire was used to collect data. Descriptive statistics, paired t-test and multiple regression analysis was done to interpret the data. Most of the respondents (78.6%) had tended to low to medium level users of recommended farming technology. The use of technology had positive and significant impact on farmers’ income. Among 13 independent variables only five variables namely, age, annual family income, attitude towards technology, organizational participation and problem faced are together explained 72.4% of the total variance of significant usages of recommended technology. The result indicates higher these variables the higher the use of recommend technology. The study proposed suggestions for policy formation to improve char farmers livelihood through the wider use of recommended farming technology.
Keywords: Farming technologies, agriculture, char land, farm income, farmers’ livelihood