| dc.description.abstract | The main purpose of the study was to determine the participation of tribal women in
Biochar production and preservation. Data were collected from the tribal women at
Daudpur and Mahamudpur union of Nawabganj upazila under Dinajpur district,
through personal interview. A pretested and structured interview schedule was used to
collect data from the respondents during 16 August to 17 September 2017 from a
sample of 102 tribal womens. Descriptive statistics are estimated to explain the
selected characteristics of the tribal women. Co-efficient of correlation (r) was
computed in order to explore the relationship between the eleven selected
characteristics including age, educational qualification, family size, farm size, annual
income, cosmopoliteness, fatalism, training received, credit received, and extension
media contact and their participation of biochar production and preservation. Among
ten selected characteristics of tribal women, annual income, training received, credit
received and extension media contact of the respondents had positive and significant
relationship with their participation in Biochar production and preservation. The rest of
the characteristics of the tribal women such as age, educational qualification, family
size, farm size, cosmopoliteness and fatalism had no any significant relationship with
their participation in Biochar production and preservation. Findings showed that
majority of the tribal women (41.2%) had low participation compared to 30.4% had
medium and 28.4% had high participation in Biochar production and preservation. The
top ranked problem (1st) faced by the tribal women in Biochar production and
preservation was found ‘difficulty in fuel collection’. The lowest proportion of tribal
women faced problems on ‘market unavailability of Akha Chula’. | en_US |
