| dc.description.abstract | The study aimed at exploring the achievement of livelihood aspiration of tribal women and
finding out the relationships between some of the selected characteristics of the tribal women
and their achievement of livelihood aspiration. Data were collected by using a pre-tested
interview schedule from the tribal women of two unions namely Chandipur, Mostafapur of
Parbatipur upazila of Dinajpur district. Data were collected from randomly selected 110
respondents from the population of 250 tribal women by using simple random sampling
method from 27 October to 15 November, 2016. The selected ten (10) characteristics of the
tribal women such as age, educational qualification, family size, farm size, annual income,
training experience, extension media contact, organizational participation, agricultural
knowledge and attitude towards participation in agricultural activities were considered as the
selected characteristics where achievement of livelihood aspirations of the tribal women
constituted the focus issue. Achievement of livelihood aspirations of the tribal women was
measured by 4-point rating scale. It was found that the observed score of achievement of
livelihood aspirations of the participating tribal women ranged from 18 to 60 in score while
the possible range was 0.0 to 75. The mean achievement of livelihood aspirations score was
37.0 with a standard deviation of 8.73. Among the farmers, 86.4 percent belonged to medium
status of achievement of livelihood aspirations status while 7.3 percent of them had high status
of achievement of livelihood aspirations and 6.4 percent had low status of livelihood
aspirations. The variation regarding different achievement of livelihood aspirations was
minimum, the highest status of achievement of livelihood aspirations was observed in case of
achievement of household food security and it was the lowest in case of achievement of access
to market opportunity. Four (4) out of ten (10) selected characteristics of the tribal women
such as farm size, extension media contact, agricultural knowledge and attitude towards
agricultural activities had significant positive relationships with their achievement of
livelihood aspiration. Rests of the characteristics such as age, educational qualification, family
size, annual income, training experience, and organizational participation had no significant
relationship with their achievement of livelihood aspiration. It was found that the achievement
of livelihood aspiration was mostly hindered due to lack of necessary agricultural land
followed by lack of enough capital for agricultural activities and unavailability of sufficient
fertilizers. To overcome the problems tribal women suggested solutions to supply sufficient
cultivable land for cultivation followed by support from Sub-Assistant Agricultural Officer
and provide loan. | en_US |
