Information management
behavior of growers in major crop cultivation in Bangladesh
Aktar Most. Tamzida, Bir Md. Shahidul Haque, Mondol Md. Abu Sayed, Rahman Md. Sadekur
and Ali Md. Arshad
International Journal of Agricultural Sciences and
Veterinary Medicine;
Vol. 12(4); 1-8;
doi: https://doi.org/10.25303/1204ijasvm0108; (2024)
Abstract
This study was to explore the information management behavior (IMB) of major crop
growers. Data were collected using interview schedules from a sample of 90 farmers
out of 898 farmers selected by multistage random sampling procedure proportionately
from four villages of Kishoregari unions of Palashbari upazila under Gaibandha district
in Bangladesh from 20 March to 25 April in 2022. Results revealed that considering
three dimensions like low to medium categories of information input, information
processing and information output behavior of the farmers were found as 88.9%, 83.3%
and 91.1% respectively. Almost two-thirds (66.67%) of the farmers were grouped under
the medium category of information management behavior followed by those with low
(22.22%) and high (11.11%) categories of IMB. Results indicated that among the nine
selected characteristics of the farmers’ six characteristics such as education,
annual income, training received, social participation, marketing orientation and
extension media contact showed positively significant relationships while age, farm
size and farming experience of farmers showed no significant relationships with
their information management behavior.
So, it is necessary to provide the farmers with useful agricultural information
for their betterment and similar types of communication behavior study may be undertaken
for extension functionaries, scientists and other farming communities.
