Bangladesh Studies

The book examines the magnitudes, variations and contributions of one hundred discrete organizational variables, two dummy variables and twenty five aggregate variables on the performance of agricultural extension organizations of Bangladesh. It presents a tested global model of management for maximizing the performance of Agricultural Extension Organizations. The study also presents 15 bivariates, 4 micro and 5 micro level multivariate management models of increasing performance of an Agricultural Extension Organization at Varying Degree of Probability.

The book aims at updating knowledge and skills of Extension Managers engaged in all functional fields of extension work. The author reviews the management processes and their implications in managing extension ser vices and postulates appropriate ways and means of dealing with the relevant issues of effective extension work. The first part of the book deals with the misconceptions about extension. And processes of out of school education, its origin and scope and presents alternative approaches and models of extension work including their advantages and disadvantages.

This book is the outcome of a multidisciplinary filed research designed to identify the potentials for and constraints to adopting crop diversification in a rice-based system. The key issues addressed in this book are: - Do the new horticultural crops synchronize within the existing cropping patterns? - How do the farmers adopt and react to the improved production, pest management and irrigation management practices of rice as well as newly introduced horticultural crops. - What is the soil fertility status and how can it be improved by changing cropping patterns?

People's Report on Bangladesh Environment 2001 is a pioneering attempt at capturing environmental perception of the citizens of the country. The Report focuses on people's livelihood and liberty; their land, food security and other basic rights; their aspiration for quality governance and equity; their struggle for survival with dignity and creativity. It ably puts people first and brings them at the centre stage of decision-making process on environmental management.