An experiment was conducted at Bangladesh Sugarcane Research Institute (BSRI) farm, Ishurdi for consecutive two years starting from 2008-2009 to 2009-2010 to find out the suitable mustard variety for mustard-mungbean sequential intercropping with paired row transplanted sugarcane.
Purpose: Bangladesh faces a growing food demand from a growing population under the continuous shrinking of arable land. Most Bangladeshi farmers produce inbred rice. Hybrid rice has been shown, in China, to be far more productive per hectare. Bangladesh cannot feed itself long-term without ample produce of hybrid rice. Yet, fewer Bangladeshi farmers are growing hybrid rice at present; they perceive hybrid rice cultivation as too risky. The present study was conducted to define the yield risks of hybrid rice and develop management strategies to allow hybrid rice to contribute more to food production.Research Method: Both quantitative and qualitative methods were used to evaluate the risks of hybrid rice production from the farmers' perspective and the experts'. Three hundred fifty-four randomly-sampled hybrid rice farmers were interviewed with key informants, focus group discussions, experts' opinion surveys, and workshops. A fuzzy triangular scale was used in calculating the yield risks of hybrid rice production.Findings: From the results, unexpected yield performance, germination failure, unavailability of seed in sowing seasons, and crop failure due to pest infestation were identified as the critical yield risks. A regression model determined that education, family income, innovativeness, hybrid rice cultivation experience, and rice selling in public procurement are lower yield risks in growing hybrid rice. Therefore, educated farmers from high-income families, innovative farmers, experienced farmers, and farmers who sell rice in public procurement face lower yield risk in hybrid rice production.Originality/value: This study mainly identified the critical risk and management strategies for hybrid rice production in Bangladesh. The policy advises encouraging hybrid rice cultivation by reducing yield risk, which is also offered.
A study was conducted to determine the attitude of the coastal rural youth towards some selected modern livestock technologies. Data were collected from randomly selected 91 youths of Patuakhali district using a structured interview schedule during 15 May to 31 May 2007. Coastal rural youths' attitude towards some selected livestock technologies was the dependent variable of the study. Ten selected individual characteristics of the respondents namely, age, education, family size, family farm size, family annual income, aspiration, innovativeness, extension media contact, agricultural knowledge and time spent in agricultural activities were considered as the independent variables of the study. Majority of the coastal rural youth (49.4 percent) had moderately favourable attitude, while 28.6 per cent had less favourable and 22 per cent had highly favourable attitude to modern livestock technologies. Among the ten selected independent variables aspiration, extension medial contact and agricultural knowledge had positive significant relationship with coastal youths' attitude towards some selected livestock technologies.
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