| dc.description.abstract | The research was undertaken to explore the involvement of rural women in different
aquaculture activities and to determine the extent of constraints faced by the women in
practicing homestead aquaculture. The survey was conducted in five upazila under Thakurgaon
district. For questionnaire interviews, simple random sampling method was use for selection of
sample from the population. A total number of 100 women, 20 form each upazila were selected
and were interviewed during November 2015 to April 2016. The study was tried to explore the
relationships of selected characteristics (independent variables) with constraints for practicing
homestead aquaculture (dependent variable). The independent variables were age, educational
qualification, family size, knowledge of aquaculture, extension contact, cosmopoliteness, pond
size, and marketing orientation. Among the total 13 constraints “unavailability of training on
fish culture” occupied the highest (CFI=225) score and is the first in the ranking while “lack of
help from family members” had the lowest (CFI=145) score. Slightly around half (49 percent) of
the respondents had medium constraints, 17 percent had low constraints and 34 percent of the
respondents had high constraints for practicing homestead aquaculture. Among the eight
characteristics of the farmer’s educational qualification, aquaculture knowledge, extension
contact and marketing orientation showed significantly negative relationship with the
constraints. On the other hand age, family size, cosmopoliteness, pond size of the respondents
did not show any significant relationship with their constraints. | en_US |
