Education Status of the Farmer and the Probability of Getting Extension Service: An Endeavour Toward the Sustainable Agriculture in Bangladesh

Noor-E-Sabiha; Md. Elias Hossain

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Education Status of the Farmer and the Probability of Getting Extension Service: An Endeavour Toward the Sustainable Agriculture in Bangladesh

Noor-E-Sabiha, Md. Elias Hossain

Published in International Journal of Agricultural Economics (Volume 2, Issue 2)

Received: 14 March 2017 Accepted: 24 March 2017 Published: 4 April 2017

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Abstract

The study measures the probability of receiving agricultural extension services with respect to the level of farmers’ rudimentary literacy, primary and secondary level of education, by utilizing survey data from 18 Unions in three agro-ecological regions of Northern Bangladesh. The econometric analysis is based on the application of qualitative response approach, the Logit model, explaining the probability of the educated farmers’ agricultural extension contact for improving their knowledge regarding input utilization and resource allocation decision. Application and utilization of farm inputs, involved in modern agriculture, such as chemical fertilizer, pesticide, irrigation, mechanized power tillers etc, requires intensive supervision, understandings, awareness and overall technological training supplied by the agricultural extension services. The study, therefore, reveals that the farmers with comparatively higher level of education generally keep a frequent contact with the agriculture extension service center for the betterment of their yield and the conservation of their fixed inputs like land and water than the other farmers possessing a lower level of educational status. Therefore, efforts to raise farmers’ educational status are expected to boost up productivity accruing from an environment friendly modern agriculture.

Published in	International Journal of Agricultural Economics (Volume 2, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijae.20170202.13
Page(s)	42-49
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Agricultural Extension Service, Farmers’ Rudimentary Education, Education Status, Environmental Awareness, Sustainable Agriculture

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Department of Economics, Rajshahi University, Rajshahi, Bangladesh
Md. Elias Hossain

Department of Economics, Rajshahi University, Rajshahi, Bangladesh

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