Cooking Practices in Rural Bangladesh: A Comparative Study between Traditional and Improved Cook Stove Users
Journal Title: International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Invention - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 6
Abstract
The rural people of Bangladesh depend both on traditional and improved stoves for cooking. In this purpose they mainly use wood, leave, cow dung, crop’s residue, coconut husk etc. The objectives of the study are to explore the cooking practices by rural households in the study area, to identify the determinants of stove choice by rural households and to compare the cost and benefit between using traditional and improved cook stoves. Tala upazila of Satkhira district has been selected as the study area. To address the objectives, a total of 120 samples are collected from two villages where 60 are traditional and 60 are improved cook stove users. Simple random sampling technique has been used to select respondents. As analytical tools, hypothesis testing, multiple regression model, and logit model have been used. The study shows that if we compare the hour of using stove, improved stove users are using stove for larger hours than the traditional users. Hours of using stove mainly depends on household expenditure, frequency of cooking, household size, fuel cost etc. On the other hand cost of fuel on using traditional stove is higher than the improved ones. In addition, emitting huge smoke, traditional stove creates indoor air pollution and various health problems which is less in case of improved stove. Stove choice mainly depends on household income, households size. Thus the benefits of using improved stove are more than that of traditional one. The households of rural Bangladesh should use improved stove for the greater benefits of it in perspective of saving fuel cost, and escaping from indoor air pollution. In this regard, awareness should be created among the households about the use of improved stove for getting greater benefit from it.
Authors and Affiliations
Sk. Sharafat Hossen, Asha Saha, Kaniz Fatima Mohsin
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