Farmers' adoption of technology: FSTP training in selected municipalities in South Cotobato and Saranggani province.

Date

12-2011

Degree

Bachelor of Science in Agriculture

College

College of Agriculture and Food Science (CAFS)

Adviser/Committee Chair

Lalican, Nelita M.

Committee Member

Villancio, V.T. Calalo , Filma Tolentino, L.L.

Abstract

The Farmer-Scientist Training Program (FSTP) project is considered to be one of the most successful research and development and extension program in the country. This study was done to assess the attributes of the innovations introduced by FSTP in relation to adoption in two municipalities of South Cotabato and a municipality of Saranggani Province. The objectives of this study are: 1) to characterize the farmers-participants of the FSTP phase 1 training; 2) to assess the farmers gained knowledge after undergoing the FSTP phase 1 training; 3) to determine the perceived attributes of the FSTP phase 1 training by the farmers-participants; and 4) to identify the farmers’ key considerations in adopting a technology. The data presented in this study are secondary, which are the demographic, socioeconomic and the post survey evaluation of FSTP phase I training. The farmers responses on the post evaluation survey served as the basis for the assessment of the farmers gained knowledge per experimentations. In terms of perceived attributes of innovation, the relative advantage of the technology was determined through the farmers’ observed benefits and effectiveness of the technologies or practices. For land preparation trial, 2-plowing was observed to be effective, for fertilizer trial farmers observed that the use of organic fertilizer, Bio-N and chicken manure are effective for corn production, detasseling was observed to be effective in controlling the corn borers, increase in income benefitted through the practice of intercropping. In producing high quality corn (big and healthy) and greater yield the practice of 2-seeds/hill ratio was found to be effective. For the intercropping practice, the farmers chose to implement the practice in the next cropping season mainly due to the additional yield they observed in the practice of it. Farmers preferred to intercropped corn with peanut and camote. For compatibility, the availability of the farm inputs such as the equipment or tools and the similarity of the innovation with the existing farming were served as the basis for compatibility. It was found that, all the innovations are compatible. The complexity attribute of the innovations, was assessed based on the farmer-participants’ experiences in the conduct of the experiment. Though there were identified constraints encountered during the experimentation, this was concluded insignificant.

Language

English

Location

UPLB Main Library Special Collections Section

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