Assessment of Farmers’ Perception of Agroforestry Practices in Jhenaidah District of Bangladesh

Sharmin, Arifa; Rabbi, Shahriar Ashik

doi:10.9734/jaeri/2016/21760

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“…Nurunnaharet al [42] found in Kaligong that, most of respondents were middle-aged farmers, male, and practice homestead agroforestry. Most of the respondents showed favorable attitudes (93%) followed by neutral attitudes (7%) and no one shows negative attitudes towards agroforestry which shows similar result (94.12% positive attitudes) with Sharmin and Rabbi [54] in Jhenaidah District of Bangladesh and they also mentioned that the middle aged farmers (42.7%) were mostly interested in adopting agroforestry in similar place of Bangladesh. Homestead agroforestry or homegarden is being more popular by the respondents in the research area.…”

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“…Another study conducted in north-eastern Atlantic forest biome in Brazil by Klie [38] revealed that most of the farmers (89%) working with agroforestry systems generates more income than working with conventional agriculture and they also showed positive views on livestock under tree crops. Therefore, Sharmin and Rabbi [54] stated that in Jhenaidah district, 32% respondents are now practicing woodlot plantation, and this may be due to massive demand of local wood. Similar study by Saha et al [50] showed 13.09% respondents practiced woodlot plantation.…”

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Sustainable Agroforestry Practice in Jessore District of Bangladesh

Sheikh

Islam²,

Sharmin

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The systematic Agroforestry practice is being popular day by day in Monirampur Upazilla of Jessore district of Bangladesh. Considering this situation, the present research work was conducted with a view to know agroforestry practice and to find out the potentialities of agroforestry based on sustainability. Multistage sampling technique method by using semi-structured questionnaires was followed in the field survey to collect data and information in the year of 2014-2016 from 140 respondents in Monirampur Upazilla of Jessore district in Bangladesh to fulfill the purpose of the research. The results showed that most of the respondents are middle aged (45%), education level is primary (32%) with medium size family (54%) and 74% of the respondents are involved in agriculture. Communication exposure is very low (70%) with low organizational participation (55%). The results illustrated that the respondents preferred homestead agroforestry (55%) as their major land use practice followed by livestock under tree cover (16%), tree crop association (13%), boundary plantation (9%) and woodlot agroforestry (7%) in the research area. Besides, 80% respondents get all benefits (environmental, social, economic, and biological) followed by economic benefit directly (10%), social benefit directly (5%), environmental benefit directly (3%), and biological benefit directly (2%). Most of them (90%) get security, employment generation and household income which accelerate their livelihood pattern. Majority respondents (64%) showed more favorable attitudes, 29% respondents showed favorable attitudes, only 7% showed neutral attitudes and no one shows negative attitudes towards agroforestry. Housing condition, proper sanitation, and asset possessions before practicing agroforestry were 40%, 77% and 35% respectively and after practicing agroforestry that changed condition are 75%,100% and 60% which revealed that peoples are benefitted due to practice of agroforestry. The result also revealed that majority primary educated respondents are involved in agriculture with medium size family mostly practiced mixed agroforestry around homestead along with livestock under tree cover, tree crop association, boundary plantation, woodlot agroforestry through possessing more favorable attitudes which ensures environmental, social, economical, biological benefits, enhance livelihood pattern, security, employment, household income etc. But communication exposure and organizational participation should be increased to adopt more technique and technology. Thus, agroforestry improve the proper utilization of resources; enhance environmentally friendly, socio-economic sustainable production system and livelihood which is socially reasonable and economically feasible through diversification of input and output which reflects that agroforestry is a sustainable system in Bangladesh.

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Sustainable Agroforestry Practice in Jessore District of Bangladesh

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Sharmin

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“…Similarly, several other studies conducted in different parts of the world found that age did not affect farmers' perception levels [70][71][72]. However, recent studies conducted in Indus River Basin of Pakistan and Bangladesh reported that younger farmers were more interested in the adoption of AF than old farmers as they are more knowledgeable about the benefit of applying advanced technology in farming such as AF [23,73].…”

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“…We developed this framework to show that farmers' perception of the ecological impacts of AF under the three themes (soil, water, plant, and animal) resulted from mental processes at the individual level and are shaped by socio-demographic and farm factors. All over the world, many studies revealed that sociodemographic and farm factors significantly affect the perceptions of the respondents [27,28,13]. Therefore, socio-demographic factors including age, level of education and farming experience; as well, farm factors such as the origin of the tree species, the type…”

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Smallholder Farmers’ Perception on Ecological Impacts of Agroforestry: Evidence from Northern Irrigated Plain, Pakistan

Ahmad¹,

Zhang²,

Ekanayake³

2021

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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IntroductionFor Pakistan, as a developing country, agriculture is considered the backbone of the economy. Approximately, 63.6% of Rural Pakistanis are directly or indirectly related to the agriculture sector. The share of agriculture to GDP is 18.5 % and of total 42.3%are employed in this sector. However, agriculture sector is hit hard by many ecological factors such as land degradation, climate change and water scarcity [1]. When crops fail, majority of rural people rely on forest resources for their livelihoods and most of them use trees on farms to generate food and cash. Moreover, many countries in the developing world including Pakistan draw on fuel wood to meet as much as 90%

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“…They thought that it could be a reserve bank of resources for their next generations as food security and economic solvency. In Jhenaidah and Jessore districts of Bangladesh, farmers' perception and attitude towards agroforestry were reported nearly similar (Islam et al, 2012;Sharmin and Rabbi, 2016). …”

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Prospects and retrospects of land use system through agroforestry practices in Meherpur district, Bangladesh

Hosain

Islam

2018

Int. J. Agril. Res. Innov. & Tech.

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The study aims to explore the prospects and retrospects of land use system through agroforestry practices in Meherpur district, Bangladesh. It particularly focuses on some aspects of land uses of the study area like land use pattern, land ownership, choices of species for agroforestry, farmers' perceptions towards agroforestry, status and prospects of agroforestry practices. This study was carried out by using mixed method followed by a semi-structure questionnaire. A total of 100 respondents were selected by using snowball purposive sampling method. The study revealed that agriculture was the major occupation (50%) of the selected respondents. Of the total land used by selected respondents, 21% land were used for agroforestry, 69% for agriculture and remaining 10% for homestead purposes. Most of the farmers (60%) were small landholders (1 to 5 acres) and 18% had lesser than 1 acre land. Among them 76% had their own land followed by 8% leased land and 16% both own and leased land. They preferred agroforestry in their homestead (92%), agricultural land (65%), water body (31%) and fallow land (18%). The farmers were practicing different types of agroforestry such as cropland, homestead and aquaculture with boundary plantation by mixing trees, agricultural crops and vegetables in their farmlands to receive diversified outcomes. A remarkable change in land use pattern was found after adopting agroforestry practices in this study area. Maximum respondents practiced agro-forestry in their homestead and croplands. Most of the land (67%) was used for agriculture cultivation while a very small amount of land was used as agroforestry in the study area.

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Assessment of Farmers’ Perception of Agroforestry Practices in Jhenaidah District of Bangladesh

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Sustainable Agroforestry Practice in Jessore District of Bangladesh

Sustainable Agroforestry Practice in Jessore District of Bangladesh

Smallholder Farmers’ Perception on Ecological Impacts of Agroforestry: Evidence from Northern Irrigated Plain, Pakistan

Prospects and retrospects of land use system through agroforestry practices in Meherpur district, Bangladesh

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