This document summarizes a study on the use of indigenous agricultural technologies by rural men and women farmers in Bangladesh. The objectives were to understand the most commonly used indigenous technologies, maintain sustainable agriculture, and identify unknown technologies. The researchers interviewed 159 households using participatory rural appraisal and semi-structured interviews. The main findings showed differences between men and women farmers in aspects like age, education, land ownership, and social restrictions. It also found that men and women prefer different indigenous technologies for crop protection, such as men using cattle urine and women using garlic juice as pesticides. The conclusion discusses promoting sustainable agriculture through identifying and training farmers on indigenous technologies at Agricultural Training Institutes.

1. Subir Nandi Sarker Nayan
Khulna University
Forestry and Wood Technology Discipline.

2. Use of
Indigenous Agricultural Technologies
by
Rural Men and Women Farmers in
Bangladesh.
Title:

3. Objectives
 To achieve knowledge about the most using indigenous technologies that
used by rural farmers.
 To save the environment from further degradation and thereby maintain a
sustainable agricultural system.
 Focusing many indigenous technologies that may be unknown to the
researchers, educators and policy makers.

4. Main method used
• PRA (Participatory Rural Appraisal)
• Semi-structured interview schedules
two trained interviewers
159 households (out of 1309
population)

5. Main findings
• Comparison between men and women
farmers
1.Age
2.Education
3.Land ownership
4.Restriction of society
5.Farming technologies

6. Main findings
• Indigenous technologies for crop protection :
• The men and women farmers were not choosing the same
technologies even in the same purposes.
For men farmers :
 Using of cattle urine as pesticide for
controlling insect pest of field crops.
 79.2% of men farmers are using this
technology whereas only 11.7%
women farmers are choosing it.
For women farmers :
 Spraying garlic juice to control
aphids and other small insects.
 50.55% of women farmers are
using this technology whereas
22% men farmers are using it.

7. Main findings
• Some countries banned many pesticides to gain sustainability
in agriculture and to stop further environmental degradations
but in Bangladesh, there is no hard and fast rules to stop the
use of these agro-chemicals.
• Indiscrimination of using agro-chemicals in the crop fields.

8. Major conclusion
• 12 Agricultural Training Institutes (ATIs) under Department of
Agricultural Extension are exclusively used for farmer’s
training in addition to providing Agricultural Diplomas.
• If these indigenous technologies are identified, modified and
presented to the farmers, then-
 Sustainability in agriculture without seriously
hampering the environment can be achieved.

9. Thank you ….!!
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