ATTITUDE OF RURAL WOMEN TOWARDS HOMESTEAD VEGETABLE CULTIVATION FOR LIVELIHOOD IMPROVEMENT – A STUDY AT SOUTH SURMA UPAZILA OF SYLHET DISTRICT

A Akter, M A Islam, M R Amin, M Kamruzzaman and M M Islam
Journal of the Sylhet Agricultural University, Volume 1, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 169-174

Abstract:

The main focus of the study was to assess the attitude of rural women towards homestead vegetable cultivation for livelihood improvement and to explore the relationship between the selected characteristics of the rural women with homestead vegetable cultivation. Data were collected from a sample of hundred (100) women of two villages of South Surma upazila of Sylhet district. The attitude of rural women was determined for 7 items under the vegetable cultivation of homestead. A comparative attitude index was computed for seven statements under vegetable cultivation by using attitude scale. Co-efficient of correlation (r) was computed to test the relationships between the dependent and independent variables. Results showed that highest percent (75%) of the rural women had shown moderate favorable attitude in vegetable cultivation for improving their livelihoods. Computed (r) values indicates that education, farm size, family income, agricultural knowledge, credit availability and communication exposure of the rural women had positive relationship with their attitude towards homestead vegetable cultivation for livelihood improvement. However, age, family size, aspiration and fatalism of the rural women had no significant relationship with their attitude towards vegetable cultivation.

Keywords:

Attitude, rural women, homestead vegetable cultivation, livelihood improvement


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A Akter, M A Islam, M R Amin, M Kamruzzaman and M M Islam. 2014. ATTITUDE OF RURAL WOMEN TOWARDS HOMESTEAD VEGETABLE CULTIVATION FOR LIVELIHOOD IMPROVEMENT – A STUDY AT SOUTH SURMA UPAZILA OF SYLHET DISTRICT, Journal of the Sylhet Agricultural University 1(2): 169-174.