Study of Technological Knowledge Perception on Pest Management and Agribusiness Activities in Bangladesh

The field survey was conducted among the farmers, researchers, extensionists and agribusiness personnel to assess their knowledge about National Agricultural Research System (NARS) recommended technologies on pest's management,Agribusiness activitiesand their economic impact in Bangladesh. The survey was conducted in 16 Upazilas (2 Upazilas from each district) of purposively selected eight (8) districts based on agricultural project activities, potential of major crop groups and potential system through a standard pre-tested questionnaire. From the field survey, it was understood that only a few number of NARS recommended Technologies were available at field level regarding pest management and Agribusiness activities in Bangladesh having more than 300 NARS recommended technologies. There was also a big knowledge gap among researchers and other respondents. Considering all technological categories, perceptions of researchers on NARS Technological Knowledge were much higher than farmers, extensionists and agribusiness personnel. There was also a big Knowledge gap between project intervention districts than less or zero project intervention districts. It was observed that most of the respondents were very much aware about the rice based technologies than other crops. Most of the poor farmers especially small scale farmers were interested to use cheap, easy handling and locally available technology for their crop pest management in storage and field level. From the results of the field survey, it was evident that majority of the farmers use different types of containers for storing their rice using different types of plant parts and fumigants for the safe storage of their rice grains.