Study of Technological Knowledge Perception on Pest Management and Agribusiness Activities in Bangladesh

Abdul Jabber Hawlader,Md Razzab Ali,Shamim Ahmed,Razia Khatun,Mohammad Showkat Mahmud,Md. Amirul Hasan,Mohammad Amir Hossain Mollah

doi:10.13189/fst.2018.060401

Abstract

The field survey was conducted among the farmers, researchers, extensionists and agribusiness personnel to assess their knowledge about National Agricultural Research System (NARS) recommended technologies on pest's management,Agribusiness activitiesand 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, potential of major crop groups and potential system through a standard pre-tested questionnaire. From the field survey, it was understood that only a few number of NARS recommended Technologies were available at field level regarding pest management and Agribusiness activities in Bangladesh having more than 300 NARS recommended technologies. There was also a big knowledge gap among researchers and other respondents. Considering all technological categories, perceptions of researchers on NARS Technological Knowledge were much higher than farmers, extensionists and agribusiness personnel. There was also a big Knowledge gap between project intervention districts than less or zero project intervention districts. It was observed that most of the respondents were very much aware about the rice based technologies than other crops. Most of the poor farmers especially small scale farmers were interested to use cheap, easy handling and locally available technology for their crop pest management in storage and field level. From the results of the field survey, it was evident that majority of the farmers use different types of containers for storing their rice using different types of plant parts and fumigants for the safe storage of their rice grains.

Highlights

Agricultural production includes activities starting from land selection for sowing seeds in the field to post harvest activities leading to reach the maximum profitable market and other uses through few dozens of major steps including crop protection in the field during storage
The research team [1] in collaboration with the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) of the Government of Bangladesh have estimated that about 10-15% of our potential crops are lost every year by the attack of insect pests and diseases
In case of cereal crops, the number of known pest management activities ranged from 29.11% -73.43%, where highest number were observed in processing and lowest number were observed in rouging activity

Summary

Introduction

Agricultural production includes activities starting from land selection for sowing seeds in the field to post harvest activities leading to reach the maximum profitable market and other uses through few dozens of major steps including crop protection in the field during storage. Destructive insect pests and diseases hamper crop production in Bangladesh to a great extent. The climate of Bangladesh is warm and humid which favors development and growth of various pests and diseases. Pests such as insects, mites, nematodes, weeds, vertebrate pests and plant diseases cause regular annual losses to crops. There has been a notable increase in the production of fruits, vegetables, pulses, oilseeds, and spice crops, which have developed a demand-driven market in the country and for some exports. The research team [1] in collaboration with the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) of the Government of Bangladesh have estimated that about 10-15% of our potential crops are lost every year by the attack of insect pests and diseases. The yield loss of Boro rice from 36.5% to 62.5% due to rice hispa out break that reported by Karim [9]

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