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        1 - Socio-Economic Improvement of Women: An Impact Evaluation of Womens' Involvement with Integrated Farming Systems in Bangladesh
        Nahid Anjuman Md. Abdul Momen Miah Rufiqunnessa Ali Mohammed Nasir Uddin
        Socio-economic improvement of rural people especially women is one of the challenges in Bangladesh. While integrated farming system is the potential area of working opportunity of the women to improve their socio-economic conditions. Considering this issue, this paper w More
        Socio-economic improvement of rural people especially women is one of the challenges in Bangladesh. While integrated farming system is the potential area of working opportunity of the women to improve their socio-economic conditions. Considering this issue, this paper was to examine the improvement of socio-economic status of women with increased participation in so-called “Integrated Farming Systems (IFS)”. Using a structured interview methodology, 100 women in the REGION involved with IFS practices were surveyed. Descriptive statistics and student’s t-test were used to analyze and interpret the collected data. A significant improvement of different socio-economic indicators like income, food consumption, housing, source of drinking water, sanitation, family asset, education and access to health facilities’ of women have found due to farming system involvement. This improvement may be significantly influenced to reduce the rural poverty and this finding might be good example for another region. Less extension contact by SAAOs of DAE regarding involvement with integrated farming system was the most severe problem while non-cooperation of family members was the least problem of involvement with integrated farming system. These results may provide policy makers and development service providers with important insight, which can be used for sound policy generations for better women’s socioeconomic improvement. Manuscript profile
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        2 - Communication Behaviour of Farmers with the Agricultural Extension Agents Using Cell Phone: A Case of Bangladesh
        Mohammad Rahman Mohammed Uddin Md. Khan
        The cell phone is one of the potential Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) in agricultural development especially in developing countries like Bangladesh. Thus, this paper deals with the farmers’ communication with the agricultural extension agents using More
        The cell phone is one of the potential Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) in agricultural development especially in developing countries like Bangladesh. Thus, this paper deals with the farmers’ communication with the agricultural extension agents using mobile phone. The study was conducted in Mymensingh District in Bangladesh. Data were collected from a sample of 110 farmers while both descriptive and inferential analyses were used. The majority (53.64 percent) of the farmers had low cell phone contact while a good number (44.54 percent) of farmers had no cell phone contact, 1.82 percent had medium contact and no farmers had high cell phone contact with agricultural extension agents. Education, farm size, annual family income, extension contact, knowledge on ICT and cell phone use frequency correlated positively while only ‘age’ is correlated negatively to their cell phone contact with extension agents. Household size and organizational participation did not show any significant relationship. Small numbers of farmers were receiving information on seed, fertilizer, culture practices, pest control and market related through cell phone. Farmers’ communication preferences through cell phone comparatively were Sub Assistant Agriculture Officer (SAAO), Trained Farmers (TF) and Seed and Fertilizer Dealers. Lack of awareness on receiving information through cell phone, apathy to getting agricultural information through cell phone, poor knowledge about cell phone operation were the major problems of farmers’ communication with the agricultural extension agents using mobile phone. Respective authorities should encourage and train both farmers and extension agents to use mobile phone as easy, low cost and popular communication medium. Manuscript profile
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        3 - Women’s Access to Nutritional Programmes in Rural Bangladesh: A Comparative Study between World Vision Beneficiaries and Non-Beneficiaries
        Mohammed Uddin Nusrat Liza Mohammed Sarker M Zannatun Mukta Md Rana
        The main purpose of the study was to make a comparison between world vision beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries regarding access to nutritional programmes and others. A total of 100 rural women consisting of both beneficiaries (50) and non-beneficiaries women (50) were More
        The main purpose of the study was to make a comparison between world vision beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries regarding access to nutritional programmes and others. A total of 100 rural women consisting of both beneficiaries (50) and non-beneficiaries women (50) were selected from Lakkhirchar and Meshta unions of Jamalpur sub-district following simple random sampling technique. Data were collected using an interview schedule and analyzed with a combination of descriptive statistics and inferential statistical technique. The findings indicated that beneficiaries of WVB had high level access to nutritional programmes compared to non-beneficiaries. While no significant difference regarding nutritional status between the beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries of WVB considering the BMI indicator. Correlation analyses indicated that organizational participation of the beneficiaries and communication exposure and training on nutritional issues of non-beneficiaries showed significant positive relationship with their access to nutritional programmes. But other variables did not show any significant relationship for both cases. The non-beneficiaries women faced more problems compared to beneficiaries’ women. Most of the non-beneficiaries women (62%) faced high level of problems while 90% of the beneficiaries’ women faced low level of problems in receiving nutritional services. Unwillingness of the participants in nutritional programmes and lack of awareness on nutritional services identified as most severe problem for beneficiaries of WVB and non-beneficiaries in receiving nutritional services respectively. Despite having problems the rural women were very much enthusiastic and eager that could help policy makers to take necessary steps to increase the access in different nutritional programmes. Manuscript profile