References on Mango

Islam S., Islam M. Z., Pramanik M. E. A., Islam M. A., Salam M. A.

Author Affiliation: Department of Agroforestry, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh.
International Journal of Sustainable Agricultural Technology 9 : 58-63

Abstract : The study was conducted at the Chapai Nawabganj district of Bangladesh to determine and describe the selected characteristics (age, education, family size, farm size, area under mango cultivation, family income, knowledge on mango cultivation, organizational participation, extension contact, cosmopoliteness and innovativeness) of the mango growers and to identify the constraints in mango cultivation. Five unions named Maharajpur, Baragharia, Sundarpur, Baliadanga and Gobratala under Sadar upazila of Chapai Nawabganj district were considered as the study area and data were collected from the mango growers through interview schedule during the period of 12 February to 13 March, 2004. The characteristics of the growers were: age, education, family size, farm size, area under mango cultivation, knowledge on mango cultivation, organizational participation, extension contact, cosmopoliteness and innovativeness. Most of the mango growers (91.43%) of the study area were middle to old aged category. Secondary and above secondary level of education jointly (66.66%) dominated mango cultivation in this area. Almost half of the mango growers had medium size mango orchard. About 7.14 percent of the mango growers were small and 43.81 percent medium and only 19.05 percent of the mango growers possessed large category. Nearly half of the mango growers were medium group. The highest proportion (53.33%) of the mango growers had low knowledge while 42.86 percent had medium knowledge and 3.81 percent high knowledge on mango cultivation. A major portion (79.04%) of the mango growers had low organizational participation while 10.48 percent had medium participation and 10.48 percent had no participation. Most (91.43%) of the mango growers of the study area had low extension contact while 8.57 percent mango growers had medium extension contact. No mango grower was found having high extension contact. The 40 percent of the mango growers had low cosmopoliteness as compared to 31.43 percent having medium cosmopoliteness and 28.57 percent having high cosmopoliteness. The majority (57.14 percent) of the mango growers had low innovativeness and 42.86 percent had medium innovativeness scores. Most (88.57%) of the mango growers were facing high constraints in mango cultivation while 11.43% had medium constraints. No mango grower was found having low constraint. Among the selected characteristics of the mango growers: education, farm size, area under mango cultivation, family income, knowledge on mango cultivation, cosrnopoliteness, innovativeness and organizational participation had significant negative relationship with the constraints faced in mango cultivation.