FARMERS ATTITUDE TOWARDS PARIZA RICE CULTIVATION IN NILPHAMARI DISTRICT

Abstract

The main purpose of the study was to determine the attitude of the farmers towards pariza rice. Data were collected from 90 randomly selected farmers out of 500 farmers of Nilphamari sadar upazila under Nilphamari district during April to May, 2015, through personal interview. 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 farmers’ attitude towards pariza rice cultivation and their nine selected characteristics. More than fifty percent (56.7 percent) of the respondents had medium knowledge compared to 18.9 percent having high knowledge and 24.4 percent of the respondents had low knowledge. The major portion (56.7 percent) of the respondents had moderately favorable attitude compared to 28.9 percent having slightly favorable attitude and only 14.4 percent had highly favorable attitude towards pariza rice cultivation. The correlation test showed that farm training received, extension media contact and cosmopoliteness had positive significant relationships; age and family size had negative significant relationship while education, farm size, farm size under pariza rice cultivation and annual income had no significant relationship with the farmers’ attitude towards pariza rice cultivation.