Interaction
  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 33
  • Issue: 2

Farmers ’perception about floating agriculture as a means of crop production

  • Author:
  • M.A. Islam1, M.R. Amin1, M. Kamruzzaman2
  • Total Page Count: 6
  • Page Number: 22 to 27

1Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Extension Education, Sylhet Agricultural University, Sylhet-3100, Bangladesh

2Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Pathology and Seed Science, Sylhet Agricultural University, Sylhet-3100, Bangladesh

Online published on 14 November, 2017.

Abstract

Overwhelming majority of the respondents had highly to very highly favorable perception regarding floating vegetable production. Relative advantage and trailability of floating agriculture were found significantly higher among other perceived characteristics. Reuse of floating bed compost as organic fertilizer during dry season crop production, quick growing of crops in floating method and scope of water-logged area under crop production were the top ranked relative advantages perceived by the respondents.

Keywords

Farmer, haor, perception, floating agriculture,