Opinion of fishermen towards their well-being under Agricultural Diversification and Intensification Project (ADIP) in Bangladesh

Agricultural Diversification and intensification Project (ADIP) was the collaborative program of the Government of Bangladesh (GOB ) and donor agencies. The program was implemented in four district of Bangladesh in order to upgrade the living-standard of the poor people who were engaged in agricultu...

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Main Authors: Mahmud, Kazi Tanvir, Mohammed, Zainal Abidin, Sambasivan, Murali, Khan, Sardana Islam
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Faculty of Economics and Management, Universiti Putra Malaysia 2010
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/12403/1/Opinion_of_Fishermen.pdf
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author Mahmud, Kazi Tanvir
Mohammed, Zainal Abidin
Sambasivan, Murali
Khan, Sardana Islam
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Mohammed, Zainal Abidin
Sambasivan, Murali
Khan, Sardana Islam
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description Agricultural Diversification and intensification Project (ADIP) was the collaborative program of the Government of Bangladesh (GOB ) and donor agencies. The program was implemented in four district of Bangladesh in order to upgrade the living-standard of the poor people who were engaged in agricultural activities. This study took the initiative to assess the impact of microcredit on the living-standard in terms of household expenditure of the borrowers under ADIP’s fishery program. Primary data was collected from landless and marginal borrowers through a simple random sampling technique from the project areas who took loan for the first time for fisheries activities. Weighted Least Square (WLS) technique was used to examine the influence of socioeconomic variables on the dependent variable “household total expenditure”. The study shows that six variables such as household’s income, years of schooling of the borrowers, training, investment on fishery activities, expenditure on food, distance of rural market from borrower’s dwelling place were significantly related to the household’s total expenditure. The study also indicates that the fishery credit did not have any significant influence on borrowers’ living-standard in terms of household’s total expenditure.
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spelling upm.eprints-124032015-07-03T01:55:34Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/12403/ Opinion of fishermen towards their well-being under Agricultural Diversification and Intensification Project (ADIP) in Bangladesh Mahmud, Kazi Tanvir Mohammed, Zainal Abidin Sambasivan, Murali Khan, Sardana Islam Agricultural Diversification and intensification Project (ADIP) was the collaborative program of the Government of Bangladesh (GOB ) and donor agencies. The program was implemented in four district of Bangladesh in order to upgrade the living-standard of the poor people who were engaged in agricultural activities. This study took the initiative to assess the impact of microcredit on the living-standard in terms of household expenditure of the borrowers under ADIP’s fishery program. Primary data was collected from landless and marginal borrowers through a simple random sampling technique from the project areas who took loan for the first time for fisheries activities. Weighted Least Square (WLS) technique was used to examine the influence of socioeconomic variables on the dependent variable “household total expenditure”. The study shows that six variables such as household’s income, years of schooling of the borrowers, training, investment on fishery activities, expenditure on food, distance of rural market from borrower’s dwelling place were significantly related to the household’s total expenditure. The study also indicates that the fishery credit did not have any significant influence on borrowers’ living-standard in terms of household’s total expenditure. Faculty of Economics and Management, Universiti Putra Malaysia 2010-06 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/12403/1/Opinion_of_Fishermen.pdf Mahmud, Kazi Tanvir and Mohammed, Zainal Abidin and Sambasivan, Murali and Khan, Sardana Islam (2010) Opinion of fishermen towards their well-being under Agricultural Diversification and Intensification Project (ADIP) in Bangladesh. International Journal of Economics and Management, 4 (1). pp. 45-60. ISSN 1823-836X http://econ.upm.edu.my/ijem/vol4_no1.htm
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title_short Opinion of fishermen towards their well-being under Agricultural Diversification and Intensification Project (ADIP) in Bangladesh
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