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The study was conducted at sadar upazila of Patuakhali district to determine the extent of usefulness of farm women training program in livelihood security and explore relationships with their 11 selected characteristics namely Age, Education, Family size, Family education, Training experience, Agricultural knowledge, Family co-operation, Annual family income, Decision making ability, Communication and Fatalism. Data were collected from 106 rural farm women (housewives) using pre-tested interview schedule during 10 July, 2014 to 20 August, 2014. Findings of the study indicated that the usefulness scores of women ranged from 25 to 62 with a mean 38.45 and standard deviation 11.21 against the possible range of 0 to 75. and 45.28 percent of the women had medium, 34.91 percent of them had low and 19.81 percent of the women had high usefulness of training programmes. The coefficient of correlation showed that out of 11 selected characteristics of the farm women, age had negative significant relationship, and rest of ten characteristics had positive significant relationships with usefulness of training programmes in livelihood security. Medium problem faced by the majority farm women in participating training programmes.