CORRELATION OF DIFFERENT CHARACTERISTICS OF THE FARMERS IN ADOPTING ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION OF CATTLE

Cattle
are one of the indexes of civilization, sources of wealth, health and
prosperity for nation. Cattle provide us food, cash as well as mechanical
power. The production of cattle is low due to their poor genetic makeup,
indigenous and large incidence of diseases.
Artificial Insemination (AI) is the first generation reproductive
biotechnology that has made a profound contribution to the genetic improvement
as well as recognized breeding tool of the cattle. But farmers in Bangladesh are not yet able to
adopt it perfectly. That was why the principle objective of the study was to determine the
correlation of different characters of
problems faced by the farmers in adopting AI of cattle. The study was conducted at two villages
of Kishoreganj Sadar Upazila in Kishoreganj district. Data were collected from
a sample of randomly selected 100 farmers out of 340 farmers. The data were
collected through personal interview by using an interview schedule. Pearson’s
product moment correlation co-efficient (r) was used to test the concerned null
hypothesis in the relationship between the dependent and the independent
variables. Except household size, farm size, farming experience and social
mobility, the other seven selected characteristics showed significant negative
relationships and age showed significant positive relationship with the extent
of problems in adopting Artificial Insemination by the farmers.