| dc.description.abstract | The present research work was done to know the farmer’s present situation about farm size,
family size and economic conditions as well as also to find out the status of Eucalyptus
species, people’s consciousness and knowledge on performance of Eucalyptus species in
homestead and cropland agroforestry. Dinajpur Sadar upazilla under Dinajpur district was
selected purposively from a total of 13 upazillas. Four (04) Unions were selected from the
upazilla using multistage sampling for the study. A sample of 100 farmers were selected, 25
from each of the selected union (Uthrail, Shankarpur, Sekhpura and Kamalpur) of Dinajpur
Sadar upazilla with equal probability to each farm category by stratified random sampling.
Data for this study were collected through personal interview during November 2018 to
January 2019 using the interview schedule. The variables were age, level of education,
family size, homestead area, crop farm size, number of Eucalyptus trees in homestead,
number of Eucalyptus trees in cropland, annual income, knowledge of plantation program
and knowledge on fuel wood and its use. The results revealed that the middle group was
majority in responding the interview schedule than young and old age groups and most of the
respondents were illiterate. The highest proportion 40 % of the respondent was small and
lowest was land less 8% size compared to 22, 20, and 10 % of marginal, medium and large
homestead size, respectively. The highest proportion i.e. 35 % of the respondent were
medium compared to 30%, 20 %, 10 % and 5 % in marginal, small, large and landless, crop
farm categories, respectively. The maximum number of eucalyptus tree (126) was found in
the homestead of Kamalpur followed by (74) in Uthrail and (63) in Shankarpur. On the other
hand the minimum number of eucalyptus trees in homestead (47) was recorded in Sekhpura.
Percent of Eucalyptus trees was highest (40%) in Kamalpur and lowest (16%) in Sekhpura.
From the result of the study it was found that 22% trees were occupied in homestead
agroforestry. In cropland agroforestry, eucalyptus trees was highest (40%) in Uthrail and
lowest (16%) in Sekhpura. The result reveled that more than 55 % of the respondents
belonged to high income while 35 % had medium income and only 10 % had low income.
Thus, the results were indicated that homestead and cropland agroforestry is a vital source of
income of the house hold. Moreover, the present research findings also reflected that peoples
of northern part of Bangladesh are very conscious about their homestead and cropland
agroforestry in selecting the tree especially Eucalyptus camaldulensis though there are some
controversy in Eucalyptus camaldulensis plantation in environmental aspect. | en_US |
