Abstract
The field survey was conducted among the farmers, researchers, extensionist and agribusiness personnel to assess their knowledge about National Agricultural Research System (NARS) recommended technologies on pre- and post-harvest management and their economic impact in Bangladesh. The survey was conducted in 16 Upazilas (2 Upazilas from each district) of purposively selected eight (8) districts based on agricultural project activities on potential of major crop groups and system through a standard pre-tested questionnaire. From the field survey, it revealed that only a few number of technologies were available at field level regarding pre and post-harvest management out of more than 300 NARS recommended technologies. There was also found a big knowledge gap among farmers; researchers and other respondents. Considering all technological categories, perceptions of researchers on NARS recommended technological knowledge were found much higher than farmers, extensionist and agribusiness personnel. There was also a big Knowledge gap between project intervention districts than less or zero project intervention Districts. It was also observed that most of the respondents were very much aware about the rice based technologies rather than other crops, especially most of the small scale poor farmers were interested to use cheap, easy handling and locally available technology for their crop regarding pre and post management at field level.
Highlights
Agriculture plays a key role in the overall economic performance of Bangladesh, in terms of its contribution to GDP, as a major source of foreign exchange earnings, and in providing employment to about 65% of the country’s population
In regards of respondents skills about technological knowledge highest percent 61.90 were perceived by researcher in all categories of technologies, followed by agribusiness personnel (49.04), and extensionist (39.03) and minimum percent was by famer (16.82) respectively
The government of Bangladesh has taken the initiative to modernize the agricultural sector in light of WTO rules and SAPTA and other international treaties for developing profitable and sustainable agricultural production systems, reducing imports of agricultural produce and products, increasing exports and facilitating the development of agro-processing industries
Summary
Agriculture plays a key role in the overall economic performance of Bangladesh, in terms of its contribution to GDP, as a major source of foreign exchange earnings, and in providing employment to about 65% of the country’s population. In developed countries losses in post harvest chain are generally small during processing, handling and storage because of availability and affordability of advanced technology, strictness in management of variables that may lead into losses and the high- quality standards set by retailers. Traditional techniques which result in considerable deterioration of physical and nutritional quality are generally practiced by growers, traders and processors Improvement of these age-old practices and development of new technologies through organized research and development efforts have become essential in order to reduce the tremendous levels of postharvest losses in grains, and fruits and vegetables, so as to increase the supply for food from a limited land resource area and thereby strengthen the economy of the country. For the analysis of the studied data, descriptive statistics such as percent, sum and average etc was used to describe some characteristics
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