| dc.contributor.advisor | Kbd. Professor Dr. Saiful Huda | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ashraf, Md. Shamim | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-04-19T06:32:58Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-04-19T06:32:58Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013-06 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/198 | |
| dc.description | Bangladesh is primarily a low, flat and fertile land. The land area of Bangladesh is
147,570 square kilometers with a population of 14,97,72,364 (BBS, 2011). It is a
developing country in South Asia, is primarily deltaic flood plains, and elevations in
most of the country do not exceed 10m. The country has a humid tropical climate.
Average rainfalls in drier and wetter regions are 1500mm and 5000mm per year
respectively. In winter, the average minimum and maximum daily temperatures are
about 9.7°C and 26.6°C respectively. In the summer, the average maximum
temperature is about 32.2°C (BARC, 1991). Bangladesh is frequently cited as one of
the most vulnerable countries to climate change (Rahman and Alam, 2003, and Huq
and Ayers, 2007) because of its disadvantageous geographic location; flat and lowlying topography; high population density; high levels of poverty; reliance of many
livelihoods on climate sensitive sectors, particularly agriculture and fisheries and
inefficient institutional aspects (CCC, 2006). Many of the anticipated adverse effects
of climate change, such as sea level rise, higher temperatures, enhanced monsoon
precipitation and an increase in cyclone intensity will aggravate the existing stresses
that already impede development in Bangladesh, particularly by reducing water and
food security and damaging essential infrastructure (MoEF, 2005). Agriculture is the
single largest producing sector of the economy and it contributes about 22 percent to
the total Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the country. GDP growth rate of
Bangladesh mainly depends on the performance of the agricultural sector. Although
due to natural calamities loss of food and cash crop is almost regular phenomenon.
Bangladesh incurs annual loss of 1.81 percent of GDP due to extreme weather events.
Total losses were 2.19 billion dollar a year from 1990 to 2008. Bangladesh scores
eight on risk index (Anonymous, 2010). | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The study was carried out to assess the extent of technology adoption by the
farmers for climate change adaptation. The specific objectives of the study were: i)
to determine and describe the extent of adoption of technologies by the farmers for
climate change adaptation, ii) to explore the relationship between extent of
adoption of technologies for climate change adaptation by the farmers and their
selected characteristics, and iii) to determine the problems confrontation of the
farmers in adopting technologies for climate change adaptation. The study was
conducted in Gangachara Upazila under Rangpur district. Ninety three (93)
respondents were selected as sample from a recent list of 310 farmers using random
sampling method. Data were collected by a pre-tested interview schedule during 15
February to 25 March 2013. Besides the usual descriptive statistical parameter,
Pearson product moment correlation coefficient (r) was also used for the statistical
analysis. Among ten selected technologies for technology adoption of the farmers
for climate change adaptation included in the study area “crop rotation” was the
highest with Technology Adoption Index (TAI) of 168 and it was followed by
“irrigation in drought” (TAI= 158), while “sweet gourd cultivation in sandbar” was
ranked lowest (TAI= 7) followed by “relay cropping” (TAI= 46). Slightly more
than two-fifths (41.9 percent) of the respondents had medium adoption of
technologies for climate change adaptation, while 36.6 percent of them had low
adoption and 21.5 percent had high adoption. Computed ‘r’ value indicated that
‘extension media contact’, ‘organizational participation’, ‘cosmopoliteness’ and
‘climate change knowledge’ showed significant positive relationship with their
adoption of technologies for climate change adaptation. ‘educational qualification’,
‘annual income’,’ farm size’ and ‘climate change awareness’ had positive but nonsignificant relationship with technology adoption. Age and family size had negative
and significant relation with technology adoption. “lack of knowledge on climate
change” was the main problem in technology adoption” followed by “lack of
training facilities for technology adoption”. | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | HAJEE MOHAMMAD DANESH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY, DINAJPUR. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Conceptual approach towards Adaptation | en_US |
| dc.subject | Limitation of the Study | en_US |
| dc.subject | Definition of the Important Terms | en_US |
| dc.title | TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION BY THE FARMERS OF RANGPUR DISTRICT FOR CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
