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Ghosh and Hasan.economically profitable’ (SPI=170) was in 24 th and ‘Crop rotation requires more laborthan other agricultural practices’ (SPI=139) was in 25 th . From the above statements it canbe said that sustainable agriculture was clear to most of the respondents and they opinedthat it is easy to apply, economically profitable, no need of extra labor.Based on the computed scores the respondents were classified into three categories i.e.,low attitude (up to 82 scores), medium attitude (83 to 106 scores) and high attitude(above 106 scores).From Figure 1 it is clear that majority (65.6%) of the respondents had medium attitudetowards sustainable agriculture followed by 21.1% low and 13.3% high attituderespectively.232Figure 1: Distribution of the farmers according to their attitude towards sustainableagricultural practicesHowever, it is observed that an overwhelming majority (79%) of the respondents in thestudy area had medium to high attitude towards sustainable agriculture. Most of therespondents of the study area knew the importance of sustainable agriculture. Many ofthem were agreed to the necessity of practicing sustainable agriculture to maintain aproper environment for agricultural production. They opined that, modern techniques likeexcess use of chemical fertilizer made the field unproductive and it is a threat to theagriculture.Relationship between selected characteristics of the farmers and their attitude towardssustainable agricultural practicesCoefficient of correlation was computed in order to explore the relationships between theselected characteristics of the farmers and their attitude towards sustainable agriculturalpractices. The null hypothesis was “there was no statistically significant relationship existsbetween the selected characteristics of the farmers and their attitude towards sustainableagricultural practices”. Relationships between the selected characteristics of the farmersand their attitude towards sustainable agricultural practices have been presented inTable 3.Table 3. Relationship between selected characteristics of the farmers and their attitudetowards sustainable agricultural practicesSelected personal attributesCo-efficient of correlation (r)Age -0.137Level of education 0.560**Farm size 0.343**Family size 0.111Annual Income 0.293**Farming experience -0.190Cosmopoliteness 0.549**Extension contactKnowledge** Significant at 0.01 level of probability0.400**0.634**http://www.bdresearchpublications.com/journal/
Sustainable Agricultural PracticesThe level of education had significant positive relationship with the farmers attitudetowards sustainable agricultural practices when ‘r’ value was 0.560** at 1% level ofsignificance. It means that the higher the level of education of the farmers, the highertheir attitude towards sustainable agricultural practices, i.e., the educated respondentshad better practice of sustainable agriculture. So the null hypothesis ‘there was nosignificant relationship between education and the response towards sustainableagricultural practice’ was rejected. Education helped to gain knowledge and thusincreased their power of understanding. Consequently their outlook was broadened andhorizon of knowledge was expanded. The real and outer world is exposed to aneducated man and he can gain various experiences for perceiving a thing better (Uddinand Rahman, 2008). Thus, with the increase of level of education, sustainable agriculturalpractices increase. Study made by Mominul (2011) also demonstrated similar findings.There was a positive and significant relationship between farm size and farmers’ attitudeon sustainable agriculture practices as ‘r’ value was 0.343** at 1% level of significance. Sothe null hypothesis was rejected. It indicates that the higher the farm size, the higher theresponse on sustainable agricultural practices, i.e., farmers with medium and large farmsize had more response on sustainable agriculture practices. Farmers those had more farmcan take more risk than those had less farm. This risk bearing ability also increased theresponse towards sustainable agricultural practices. Rahman (2005) also found similarfindings in his studies. The annual income of the farmers had significant positiverelationship with attitude of the sustainable agricultural practices with computed ‘r’ valuewas 0.293**. It means that the higher the level of income of the respondents, the highertheir attitude towards sustainable agricultural practices. Afrad (2009) also found similarresults in his studies.Cosmopoliteness of the respondents had positive significant relationship with attitudetowards sustainable agricultural practices with computed ‘r’ value was 0.549** at 1% levelof significance. It means that the higher the level of cosmopoliteness of the respondents,the higher their attitude on sustainable agricultural practices. People differ in theirtraveling to different places while others confined themselves within a narrow boundary.Those people, who are outward going by nature, come into contact with differentpeople, see new experience and ideas. These people liberate themselves from narrowattitudes and develop within themselves a clearer outlook on life. These people exhibitdifferent attitudes and behaviors in many aspects of everyday life compared to others.Mominul (2011) found similar result in his studies.Extension contact of the respondents had positive significant relationship with the attitudeof the farmers towards sustainable agricultural practices and the computed ‘r’ value was0.400** at 1% level of significance. So the null hypothesis ‘there was no significantrelationship between extension contact and the attitude towards sustainable agriculturalpractice’ was rejected. That means higher the level of extension contact of therespondents, the higher their attitude n sustainable agricultural practices. Similarrelationship was also obtained by Alam (2007).Conclusioni. Most of the farmers of the study area were young aged, having large family size, smallfarm holding and had primary level of education with low to medium annual incomeand medium farming experience. Most of them had low extension contact, and lowcosmopoliteness.ii. More than sixty percent (65.6%) of the respondents had medium attitude towardssustainable agricultural practices compared to 21.1 % having low attitude and 13.3%had high attitude towards sustainable agricultural practices. The findings revealedthat farmers had a moderate attitude towards sustainable agricultural practices. Thismight be due to the fact that a considerable proportion of the farmers had notenough training exposure, moderate use of source of information and low extensioncontact.iii. Coefficient of correlation test indicated that education, farm size, annual income,cosmopoliteness, extension contact and knowledge showed positive significantrelationship with the attitude of the farmers towards sustainable agricultural practices,233http://www.bdresearchpublications.com/journal/
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