Abstract
The present study provides a systematic estimate of male and female participation in agricultural production and usage of agricultural technology and examines their influence in the adoption of modern technology in three upazilas in Jamalpur district. The study was followed by the simple random sampling technique to select 190 sample of respondents for household survey through the semi-structured questionnaire. There has been a significant change with the livestock rearing activities which are 118.79% after adoption of new technology. It is evident that the decision regarding farming with adoption of new technology attains the highest rank. The second highest ranked decision is technical training on technology. Similarly, the third ranked decision is use of modern technology. The modern technology improves the quality of management and materials (seeds, land, tools). The experience on modern technology of respondents has a positive coefficient and it was 0.492. However, our research showed that about 65.2% of the respondents were women as users of traditional agricultural machinery. Given these facts, our research has explained what keeps women's rates of modern agricultural technology adoption low.
Highlights
Technological progress is a prerequisite for the economic growth of countries, regions, and cities [1]
Rural women in Bangladesh are facing adverse conditions in terms of social oppression and economic inequality [57, 58]. They are deprived of many human rights [59]. Their discrimination cannot be separated from the problems of rural Bangladesh [60, 61]
It is necessary to support initiatives aimed at gender equality and women’s empowerment in rural Bangladesh [62, 63] because [64] the woman is an essential part of society in its public and private fields, and its present and future
Summary
Technological progress is a prerequisite for the economic growth of countries, regions, and cities [1]. It allows efficient production of more and better goods and services. Through history, technology has proved to be extremely useful in the agricultural sector. Bangladesh, being one of the most densely populated countries with highly unfavourable land-man ratio and widespread hunger, pursued a policy of transforming agriculture through acceleration of technological development to keep up with the increasing population. It is felt that the productivity of this new agricultural technology is weakening and might pose a threat to the sustainability of economic development [2, 3]
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