Adoption Behaviour of Mango-growers towards Pesticides in Bangladesh

Abstract

The study was attempted to determine: i) the extent of adoption of pesticides in mango cultivation; and ii) the relationships of each of the selected characteristics of the mangogrowers with their adoption behaviour of pesticides in cultivating mango. The study was conducted in Sadar Upazila of Nawabganj District and all the mango-growers of this domain were considered population. A sample of 100 mango-growers was selected at random from 12 villages of the selected area. Data were collected from the sample during 10 August to 19 September 2001. The findings revealed that majority (55%) of the mango-growers had 'very low adoption' while 28 per cent of them have 'low adoption' and the rest was not found applying pesticides to their mango plants. Only a little proportion (13-23%) of the mango-growers used pesticides as per recommended dose. Family income and innovativeness of the growers were found to have significant positive association with their adoption behaviour to the pesticides. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]