Present status and problem confrontation of oilseed cultivation in southwest region of Bangladesh

Antu Roy Chowdhury,Md Matiul Islam,Mohammad Bashir Ahmed,Rubayet Ara,Suraya Pervin

doi:10.3329/jbau.v16i2.37961

Antu Roy Chowdhury, Md Matiul Islam + Show 3 more

Open Access

https://doi.org/10.3329/jbau.v16i2.37961

Copy DOI

Abstract

The present piece of research was conducted to explore the present status and problem confrontation of oilseed cultivation. Besides, relationship of the selected characteristics of the respondents with their problem confrontation was explored. This study was conducted at three selected villages namely Fultola, Debitola and Hetalbunia of Batiaghata upazila. Data were collected from purposive randomly selected 82 respondents during the period of 07 to 27 May, 2017. Appropriate scales were used to measure the variables of the study. Correlation test was used to ascertain the relationship between the personal characteristics with the faced problems. Average age of the respondents was 50.43 years. Around two-third (63.4 percent) of the respondents belonged to nuclear family with small to medium (65.9 percent) family size with an average of 5.87 years of schooling. Most (98.7 percent) of the respondents had scanty land ownership. All of them had oilseed cultivation experience and 57.3 percent had organizational participation. Their average annual income was 1,06,122 Tk. Three-fourth (75.6 percent) of the respondents had medium extension contact and about two-third (69.5 percent) had low cosmopoliteness. Among the respondents 68.3 percent had high knowledge, 81.7 percent had favorable attitude, and among oilseed sesame ranked first position in case of cultivation practice. Water logging, salinity and lack of improved technology for planting and harvesting ranked 1st, 2nd and 3rd position, respectively, among the problems. Annual income and attitude had negative significant relationship with problem confrontation. Respondents had favorable attitude towards oilseed cultivation. This attitude may be a tool for the oilseed farmers to increase the oilseed cultivation status in the study area.J. Bangladesh Agril. Univ. 16(2): 198-207, August 2018

Highlights

Oilseed crops are those plants that can provide oil from seeds
The edible oil producing plants constitute a major proportion of agricultural crop in Bangladesh
Considering the abovementioned facts this study was conducted to investigate the present status of oilseed cultivation in southwest region of Bangladesh in the context of area, production, yields and other related aspects, along with pointing out the problems confronted by the farmers

Summary

Introduction

Oilseed crops are those plants that can provide oil from seeds. The edible oil producing plants constitute a major proportion of agricultural crop in Bangladesh. To the food grain oilseed crops and vegetables are categorized as two major groups depending on their area coverage and production. Oilseed is the most important source of vegetable oil. It plays a vital role in agricultural sector of Bangladesh. It is a matter of sorrow that, the production of oilseed cannot meet up country’s annual demand. A lot of foreign exchange is spent every year for importing edible oils and oilseeds to fulfill the domestic requirement (Hossain, 2017). Up-to-date and nationally representative data and information were scarce in this regard

Objectives

Methods

Results

Conclusion