Factors Influencing the Extent of Practice of Organic Farming Technologies: A Case Study of Tangail District in Bangladesh
- 1 The United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Tottori University, Japan
- 2 Faculty of Agriculture, Yamaguchi University, Japan
Abstract
The study was attempted to explore the major factors influencing the extent of practice of organic farming technologies (called OFTs from here) by the Bangladeshi farmers. The empirical data for the study were collected from the organic farmers of the selected villages of Tangail district in Bangladesh. The results of the study identified four factors like development of knowledge and awareness regarding environmental issues, creation of health awareness, and simplicity of the OFTs and availability of basic production factors as the major influential factors which can increase the extent of practice of OFTs by the farmers. Taking these factors into account the policy makers can formulate a strategy to increase the extent of practice of various OFTs by the farmers for the successful expansion of organic farming in Bangladesh.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/ajabssp.2008.584.590
Copyright: © 2008 Md. Asaduzzaman Sarker and Yoshihito Itohara. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
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Keywords
- Factors
- influence
- extent of practice
- OFTs and Bangladesh