KNOWLEDGE OF TRIBAL WOMEN ON BIOCHAR PROMOTION FOR HOMESTEAD GARDENING

Abstract

The main purpose of the study was to determine the knowledge of tribal women on biochar promotion for homestead gardening. Data were collected from the tribal women of Nawabgang 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. Simple and direct questions with different scales were used to obtain information. Co-efficient of correlation (r) was computed in order to explore the relationships between the ten selected characteristics of the tribal women and their knowledge on biochar. Findings indicated that majority 36.3% of the tribal women had high knowledge followed by 34.3% had low knowledge and 29.4% had medium knowledge on biochar. Correlation analyses indicated that among five selected characteristics such as level of education ,farm size, annual family income, training received, and extension media contact of the tribal women had positive significant relationships with their knowledge on biochar for homestead gardening. However, age, family size, decision making ability, organizational participation and fatalism had no significant relationships with their knowledge on biochar for homestead gardening. The highest problem faced by the tribal women in on biochar promotion= gardening was found on ‘lack of woody fuel’ (PFI =223). The lowest problem of tribal women faced on ‘complexity on storage’ (PFI =50).