Abstract
The study was conducted to determine the attitude of farmers towards the use of urea super granule (USG) in rice cultivation and explore relationship between the selected characteristics of the farmers. Data were collected through personal interview from 84 randomly selected USG users in rice cultivation of the three villages under Sadar Upazila of Netrakona district during October to December 2008. A five point Likert scale was used to determine the attitude of farmers. The majority (73.81%) of the farmers had moderately favourable, 21.43% slightly favourable and 4.76% highly favourable attitude towards use of USG in rice cultivation. Level of education, farm size, annual income, farming information, agricultural training exposure and rice farming knowledge of the farmers had significant positive relationship but family subsistence pressure had significant negative relationship with their attitude towards the use of USG. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jbau.v9i2.10983 J. Bangladesh Agril. Univ. 9(2): 179185, 2011
Highlights
IntroductionIn Bangladesh, rice is the main staple food crop
Nitrogen is a very important nutrient element for crop production
The Department of Agriculture Extension, some other government and nongovernment organizations have been working among the farmers in different areas of the country including Netrakona district to popularize the use of Urea super granule (USG) in crop production
Summary
In Bangladesh, rice is the main staple food crop It covers about 80% of the total cropped area of the country (AIS, 2008). Farmers of Bangladesh use mainly urea in rice field as the most available source of nitrogen. Farmers apply urea in rice field mainly on the soil surface. Urea super granule (USG), a slow releasing nitrogenous fertilizer is being marketed in Bangladesh as a source of nitrogen. Deep placement of USG in rice field instead of broadcasting conventional prilled urea can increase the efficiency of applied nitrogen by improving absorption to a certain extent. The Department of Agriculture Extension, some other government and nongovernment organizations have been working among the farmers in different areas of the country including Netrakona district to popularize the use of USG in crop production. The present study was undertaken to achieve the following objectives; i) to describe selected characteristics of the farmers, ii) to determine farmers’ attitude towards the use of USG in rice cultivation and iii) to explore the relationship between the farmers’ selected characteristics and their attitude towards the use of USG in rice cultivation
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