The study was conducted to investigate the effect of noise pollution on patients

The study was conducted to illuminate the food security status of livestock rearing small farmers in some selected areas of Gazipur district and to examine whether their food security are affected by livestock assets and in what extent. Data were collected from 50 farmers using purposive random sampling method during January-March, 2014. In order to collect data, a questionnaire was administered through face-to-face interviews. Data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics and logit model was used for statistical analysis. The results of descriptive statistics showed that only 4 percent of the sample small farmers crossed the secondary level of education, 14 percent of them were able to sign only and 8 percent of them were illiterate. Agriculture was identified as the main source of income among the sample small farmers and livestock rearing was identified as the subsidiary occupation of them. The descriptive study revealed that 58 percent of their total income came from crop cultivation and 37 percent came from livestock. The food security status of the sample farmers were checked by using recommended minimum calorie requirement (i.e. 2122 kcal). The results of the descriptive analysis revealed that, 50 percent of the sample farmers were food secured and the rest 50 percent were food insecure. The results of the logit model indicated that, out of six variables, four variables- annual income, education level of household head, number of small and large animals had significant positive influence on household's food security. Finally based on findings some policy measures were recommended.

This study was undertaken to assess the financial profitability of aromatic rice production. A total of 45 farmers of some selected villages of Chirirbandar upazila of Dinajpur district were considered as sample for achieving these objectives. To collect data, a questionnaire was administrated through face-to-face interviews of the sample farmers. Collected data were analyzed with descriptive statistics. The result of descriptive analysis revealed that the average family size of aromatic rice growers was 4.64 and 88.88 percent of total sample farmers were literate. Total costs for aromatic rice was estimated at Tk. 64446.51 per hectare and per hectare gross return of aromatic rice was Tk. 114243.71. Gross margin for aromatic rice was estimated at Tk. 59999.29 per hectare. Thus, the net return was estimated at Tk. 49797.20 for aromatic rice production. The undiscounted Benefit Cost Ratio on the basis of total cost was 1.77 implying that the aromatic rice production was highly profitable. Finally, some policy recommendations based on the findings of the study were suggested in the study.