Contribution of Women in Homestead Vegetable Cultivation in Rajshahi District of Bangladesh

The study was carried out to determine the extent of contribution of women in homestead vegetables cultivation and to explore relationships among the selected characteristics of the women and their contribution in homestead vegetables cultivation. The highest percentage (47 percent) of respondents had high contribution in vegetable cultivation compared to 27 percent medium contribution, 20 percent low contribution and 6 percent had very low contribution. Correlation analysis indicated that the characteristics of the women namely education, family size, annual income, training exposure, organizational participation, individual extension contact, group extension contact, mass extension contact, decision making process and innovativeness had significant positive relationships with the contribution of women in homestead vegetable cultivation. The regression coefficients of only three variables viz. education, physical fitness and training exposure were statistically significant indicating that these variables had significant contribution in the vegetable cultivation of the women.