DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AND INFORMATION SYSTEM
Abstract
A Thesis
Submitted to the Department of Agricultural Extension and Information System
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka
In partial fulfilment of the requirements
for the degree of
MASTER OF SCIENCE (MS)
IN
AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AND INFORMATION SYSTEMThe key concern of this study was to explore the mobile phone usage behavior of fish
farmers for commercial fish farming. Four unions of Atwari and Boda upazila under
Panchagarh district were randomly selected as the locale of the study. One hundred
(100) farmers were selected as the sample for this study. Data for this study were
collected through personal interviews by the researcher herself from July 31 to August
31, 2021. Data were analyzed by Multiple Regression Analysis using SPSS 23.0. Age,
level of education, farming experience, annual family income, fish farm size,
communication exposure, fisheries training received, usefulness of using ICT, ICT selfefficacy,
use
of
mobile
phone
were
the
selected
variables
for
the
study.
Highest
(45%)
proportion
of
the
fish
farmers
frequently
used
mobile
phones
for
their
commercial
fish
farming.
Others were often, occasional, rare or not at all users of mobile phone for
commercial fish farming. Considering the inferential statistics, education,
communication exposure, ICT self-efficacy had positive and significant contributions
to mobile phone use, constituting 70.5% (R
2
= 0.705) of the variance. Thus, the study
concludes with the recommendation to enable a favorable environment to promote
mobile phones in receiving fisheries production and its market information
