Use of Agriculture Information by fertilizer and pesticide dealer with respect their socio-economic variable: a study in Coochbehar District Use of Agriculture Information by fertilizer and pesticide dealer with respect their socio-economic variable: a study in Coochbehar District

Abstract

The source of agriculture information was a
crucial point for farmers. Farmers were getting
agriculture information from variety of sources.
Among the variety of sources fertilizer and
pesticide dealer play an important role for
information dissemination about agriculture
practices to the farmers. They were closely
contact with farmers. Dealer also diagnosis the
plant and suggest some medicine. But there
were several question may arises that from
which sources they were got information and
disseminating to the farmers? On the basis
above statement Coochbehar Krishi Vigyan
Kendra organize an awareness generation
programme on fertilizer and pesticide dealer of
Coochbeahr district in eastern zone of India to
know the used of information about agriculture
practices with respect their some socioeconomic
variable. The study was conducted
during February, 2016.The research design was
followed in the study was survey research
method. The respondents for this study
included from the Coochbehar district. The
entire trainees available at the time of
awareness programme were considered as
respondents. Semi-structure interview schedule
were used for collection of data. The sample
size for the study was 50. The dependent
variable of this study was Sources of
information and independent variables were
age, occupation, education, land holding,
religion, family member and number of year
associated with their occupation. The
descriptive statistics like frequency, percentage and other statistical tools were used for the investigation