Authors: Lutfun Naher Mukta, Md. Enamul Haque, Md. Abu Sadat and Md. Zablul Tareq*
*Corresponding author’s Email: zablulbarj@gmail.com
Participation of women in homestead agricultural sector is a
crucial issue in developing countries like Bangladesh. The study was conducted
in two selected villages of Kapasia Upazila under Gazipur district of
Bangladesh to assess the nature and extent of women’s participation in
homestead agricultural activities. Fourteen types of issues namely age,
education, family size, family firm size, organizational participation,
exposure to mass media, training, knowledge in the different homestead
agricultural activities, participation in the homestead agricultural
activities, comparative participation in different homestead agricultural
activities, participation in homestead vegetables and fruit cultivation,
participation in post-harvest activities, participation in poultry and
participation in cattle rearing were investigated in this study. This research
was conducted from randomly selected 90 farm women from the two selected
villages during July to August, 2011.
Most of the rural women were found to participate in homestead vegetable
and fruit cultivation, post-harvest activities, poultry raising and cattle
rearing. In case of vegetable and fruit cultivation, majority of the rural
women regularly participate in activities like harvesting, weeding, mulching
and irrigation. It was found that extent of participation of the rural women in
post-harvest activities and poultry raising were also high. Educational status,
family farm size, organizational participation, exposure to mass media,
training experience and knowledge about different agricultural activities showed
significant positive relationships with their participation in homestead
agricultural activities. Major problems faced by the rural women in homestead
agricultural activities were lack of good quality seeds in proper time,
shortage of irrigation water for agricultural production, lack of knowledge for
improved crop production, lack of adequate quantity fertilizer in proper time
and insect attack, respectively.
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