The effects of gender on technical efficiency of indigenous rice production in Sagada, Mountain Province

Date

5-2016

Degree

Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Economics

College

College of Economics and Management (CEM)

Adviser/Committee Chair

Julieta A. Delos Reyes

Abstract

The study aimed to assess the effects of gender on technical efficiency in indigenous rice production in Sagada, Mountain Province. A total of 60 male and 60 female rice parcel heads was interviewed. These heads had more than one managed parcel in different locations with different biophysical characteristics which affected resource utilization. The socio-economic characteristics of a parcel head were used on his/her managed parcel.Results showed that females had younger age, lower household size, years of rice parcel management and number of owned parcels had higher number of days deviated from agricultural calendar and distance from seedbed and irrigation had similar number of co-managed parcels had higher educational attainment, access to information, credit availment had lower production, parcel area, seed, machine-labor and adult and middle aged male labor utilization and higher utilization of nitrogen, phosphorus, rodenticide, adult and middle-aged female and young labor and higher use of HYVs.It was found out that age, household size and rice parcel management experience, area of parcel, seed utilization, adult and middle aged male and machine labor had significant mean differences between groups. Also, land, rodenticide, seed and seed variety adoption had positive relationship with production, opposite of middle aged male labor. Meanwhile, household size and access to information directly affected TE, opposite of education, deviation from the agricultural calendar and number of co-managed parcels. Female-headed parcels were more technically inefficient (89.72%) than male headed parcels (98.16%). Females had significant lower parcel area and seed utilization, which had significant and positive effect on production and had significant lower household size, which had significant positive effect on TE. Both males and females had encountered problems such as pests, lack of water due to poor maintenance of irrigation and El Niño typhoons and erosion: poor soil fertility high prices of inputs small area of paddies, high stone walls, lack of pathways, difficult terrain and long distance going to the fields, and inadequate post-harvest facilities. Thus preservation of cultural management involving women empowerment, promotion of continued use of family labor and shared management in rice farming, encouragement of expansion of rice parcel area and minimization of rice parcel number and provisions of support rice farming were recommended.

Language

English

Location

UPLB College of Economics and Management (CEM)

Call Number

LG 993.5 2016 A14 F56

Document Type

Thesis

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