PROBLEMS PERCEIVED BY THE VEGETABLE FARMERS IN SELECTED AREA OF SARISHABARI UPAZILLA UNDER JAMALPUR DISTRICT
ABSTRACT
The purpose of the study was to determine the level of challenges that vegetable farmers confront, compare the severity of those difficulties, characterize a few determined characteristics of farmers, and investigate the connections between the characteristics selected of farmers and the degree of problems they encountered in vegetable cultivation. Purposefully, the investigation was accompanied in the Sarishabari upazila of Jamalpur district. Between June and July of 2022, information was gathered from 103 vegetable producers using the verified and organized interview schedule. In terms of vegetable cultivation, the largest percentage of farmers (71.84%) experienced medium problems followed by those who experienced low problems and those who experienced severe problems (11.65%). Based on the Problem Face Index, it was perceived that “high labor costs” ranked first and “high prices for insecticides, fertilizer, and seeds” ranked second followed by insufficient of high-quality seeds, insufficient storage facilities, lacking of reasonable pricing, respectively. According to the findings of the Pearson’s Product Moment correlation analysis, farmers’ problems with vegetable cultivation were significantly correlated with their education, annual family income, income from vegetable cultivation, experience growing vegetables, exposure to training, and knowledge of vegetable cultivation technologies. Furthermore, there was no discernible relationship between the farmers’ issues with vegetable farming and the other four factors-media exposure, age, family size, and vegetable cultivation land.