http://103.7.193.12:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/146 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:06:55 GMT 2026-04-17T17:06:55Z http://103.7.193.12:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/2081 FARMERS’ IMPROVEMENT OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS THROUGH PARTICIPATION IN CIGs The study is aimed at exploring the improvement of socio-economic status of the CIG farmers and finding out the relationships between the selected characteristics of the farmers and their improvement of socio-economic status. Data were collected by using a pre-tested interview schedule from the farmers of three unions of Biral Upazila under Dinajpur district. Data were collected from randomly selected 105 respondents of the total 1050 CIG farmers from 20 December, 2018 to 25 January, 2019. The selected 10 characteristics of the farmers such as age, education, family size, farm size, farming experience, annual income, training experience, organizational participation, desirability, and use of information sources were considered as the explanatory variables where improvement of socio-economic status of the farmers considered as the focus issue of the study. Improvement of socio-economic status of the farmers was measured by 4-point rating scale. The observed score of overall improvement of socio-economic status of the farmers ranged from 2 to 48 while the possible range was 0 to 48. The mean improvement of socio-economic status score was 25.90 with a standard deviation of 9.64. Among the farmers, 67.6 percent belonged to medium improvement of socio-economic status while 16.2 percent of them had high improvement of socio-economic status and 16.2 percent had low improvement of socio-economic status. The variation regarding different aspects of improvement of socio-economic status was medium, the highest improvement of socio-economic status was observed in food security aspects and that was the lowest in technological aspects. Six out of ten selected characteristics of the farmers are education, farm size, training experience, organizational participation, desirability and use of information sources had significant positive relationships with their improvement of socio-economic status. Rests of the characteristics are age, family size, farming experience and annual income had no significant relationship with their improvement of socio-economic status. FARMERS’ IMPROVEMENT OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS THROUGH PARTICIPATION IN CIGs; A Thesis By LABONI; MASTER OF SCIENCE IN AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION, Department of Agricultural Extension, Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University, Dinajpur; JUNE, 2019. Sat, 01 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMT http://103.7.193.12:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/2081 2019-06-01T00:00:00Z http://103.7.193.12:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/2022 FARMERS’ INFORMATION NEEDS FOR GOOD AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES (GAPs) IN DINAJPUR DISTRICT GAZI, RAYHAN FARUQ The main objectives of the study were to assess the information needs of farmers for good agricultural practices (GAPs), to explore the relationship between farmers‟ selected characteristics with their information needs for good agricultural practices (GAPs), and to determine the problems perceived by farmers in adopting good agricultural practices (GAPs). The study was conducted in two unions namely Betdighi and Aladipur of Phulbari upazila of Dinajpur district. One hundred four (104) farmers were interviewed using an interview schedule from 9 March to 2 April 2023. Simple and direct questions and appropriate scales were used in order to measure the selected variables. To measure farmers‟ information needs of good agricultural practices (GAPs), 20 items under four dimensions were considered. The selected items were measured on a four-point rating scale. Scores were assigned as 3, 2, 1, and 0 for „high‟, „medium‟, „low‟, and „no‟ information needs, respectively. The finding of the study revealed that the highest proportion (68.3 percent) of the respondents had the medium information needs while 28.8 percent had the high information needs and 2.9 percent of them had low information needs. Among four dimensions of good agricultural practices (GAPs) farmers expressed their utmost need of information for „sustainable and healthy production‟ and based on the Standardized Information Needs Index (SINI), „appropriate cultivation practices according to GAP policies‟ (SINI=92.31) was ranked first. Correlation analyses indicate that age, educational qualification, agricultural training received, knowledge of good agricultural practices, and contact with sources of information had significant negative relationships with farmers‟ information needs while attitude towards good agricultural practices had the significant positive relationship with the focus issue. Moreover, “lack of specialized skills in practicing complex GAP technologies and methods” (SPPI=95.83) was found to be the major problem perceived by the farmers in adopting good agricultural practices (GAPs). FARMERS’ INFORMATION NEEDS FOR GOOD AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES (GAPs) IN DINAJPUR DISTRICT; A Thesis By MD. RAYHAN FARUQ GAZI, Student No. 1905414, Semester: July-December; MASTER OF SCIENCE IN AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION, Department of Agricultural Extension, Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University, Dinajpur; December 2022. Thu, 01 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT http://103.7.193.12:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/2022 2022-12-01T00:00:00Z http://103.7.193.12:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/1996 IMPROVEMENT OF LIVELIHOOD CAPITALS OF THE COMMON INTEREST GROUP FARMERS THROUGH PARTICIPATION IN GOVERNMENT AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION PROGRAMS MAHBUB, MD. KHALED The study aimed to explore the improvement of livelihood capitals of the CIG farmers and find out the relationships between selected characteristics of the CIG farmers and their improvement of livelihood capitals. Data were collected by using a pre-tested interview schedule from the farmers of Birganj upazila of Dinajpur district. Data were collected from 131 sample farmers selected by multistage random sampling procedure from a population of 2202 CIG farmers from 10 August to 21 September 2022. Nine selected characteristics of the CIG farmers are: age, education, family size, farm size, annual income, training experience, agricultural knowledge, extension media contact, and organizational participation were considered as the selected characteristics, where improvement of livelihood capitals of the farmers constituted the focus issue. Improvement of livelihood capitals of the CIG farmers was measured by a 4-point rating scale. It was found that the observed score of the improvement of livelihood capital ranged from 16 to 70 while the possible range could be 0 to 75. The mean livelihood improvement score is 54.63 with a standard deviation of 11.37. Among the farmers, 74.0 percent belonged to high extent of improvement of livelihood capital, while 22.1 percent of them had medium extent of improvement of livelihood capital, and 3.8 percent had low extent of improvement of livelihood capital. The variation regarding different assets of livelihood was minimum, the highest status of livelihood improvement was observed in the case of human capital, and it was the lowest in the case of natural capital. Four (4) out of nine (9) selected characteristics of the farmers are annual income, training experience, agricultural knowledge, and extension media contact had significant positive relationships with their improvement of livelihood capitals. Rests of the characteristics are age, education, family size; farm size, and organizational participation had no significant relationship with their livelihood improvement. DAE and other concerned organizations should take capital-specific agricultural extension programs for the enhancement of the livelihood capitals for the CIG farmers. IMPROVEMENT OF LIVELIHOOD CAPITALS OF THE COMMON INTEREST GROUP FARMERS THROUGH PARTICIPATION IN GOVERNMENT AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION PROGRAMS; A Thesis By MD. KHALED MAHBUB, Student No. 1905415, Semester: July-December 2022; MASTER OF SCIENCE IN AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION, Department of Agricultural Extension, Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University Dinajpur; December 2022. Thu, 01 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT http://103.7.193.12:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/1996 2022-12-01T00:00:00Z http://103.7.193.12:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/1572 PREFERENCE OF ICT TOOLS BY THE FARMERS IN RECEIVING AGRICULTURAL INFORMATION Anik The main purpose of the study was to determine the preference of ICT tools by the farmers for field crop cultivation. The study was conducted in five out of 17 villages of Dhamair union of Birol upazila under Dinajpur district. An updated list of 1007 farmers was collected from the local NGOs. From this list 103 farmers were selected at randomly as sample for this study. Data were collected during 15 September to 14 October 2018 by using an interview schedule. Each of the selected nine characteristics of the farmers namely age, education, family size, farming experience, annual income, organizational participation, cosmopoliteness, attitude towards ICT tools and innovativeness constituted the causal factors, while preference of ICT tools was the focus issue variable. The focus issue was determined by extent of contact with ICT tools and usefulness of ICT tools in receiving agricultural information. On the other hand, ten ICT tools were considered to determine the preference of ICT tools for field crop cultivation. Rank order for each of the ICT tools was computed by using preference of information and communication tools index (PICTI). Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient (r) was used to explore the relationship between the focus issue and selected characteristics of the farmers. The highest proportion (61.17 percent) of respondents had medium preference of information and communication tools while 20.38 percent had high and only 18.45 percent had low preference. In contrast, mobile phone was mentioned by majority of respondents (PICTI=482) as the most preferred ICT tool in receiving agricultural information, and computer or laptop occupied the last position in the ranking of the least preferred ICT tools (PICTI=105). Out of nine independent variables; education, annual income, cosmopoliteness and innovativeness showed significant positive relationship while age and farming experience of the farmers showed significant but negative relationship with the dependent variable. The rest of the characteristics viz. family size, organizational participation and attitude of the farmers did not show any relationship with their preference of ICT tools. A Thesis By Anik Student No. 1705233 Session: 2017-18 Semester: July-December/2018 Submitted to the Department of the Agricultural Extension In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE IN AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION Sat, 01 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMT http://103.7.193.12:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/1572 2018-12-01T00:00:00Z