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A Comparative study of farm income and production of farmer-contract workers of Daine, Indang, Cavite / by Cristina V. Masana.

By:

Masana, Cristina V [author]

Contributor(s):

Guevara, Camilo F. Jr [adviser]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Indang, Cavite : Don Severino Agricultural College, 1986.Description: 32 pages : illustrations ; 28 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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DDC classification:

331.7631 M37 1986

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College of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Natural Resources (CAFENR)

Abstract: MASANA, CRISTINA V. "A Comparative Study on Farm Income and Production of Farmer-Contact Workers of Daine, Indang, Cavite". B.S. Undergraduate Thesis, Don Severino Agricultural College, Indang, Cavite. April 1986. Adviser: Prof. Camilo F. Guevara, Jr. This study was conducted to determine the socio- economic characteristics of the farmer-contract workers of Daine, Indang, Cavite and to compare their income and farm production before and after the farmer emigrated. In this study, 100 respondents were interviewed. Frequency counts, percentages, ranks and t-tests were the statistical tools used in the study. As revealed in this study, the farmer-contract workers of Daine had the following socio-economic characteristics: mean age of 39 years, majority were married, had somehow attended/finished elementary and high school with others who even had vocational or collegiate schooling. Average family size was four to six children. Eighty-seven were landowners and all of them were practicing multiple-cropping system of farming (banana-coconut- coffee). Most of them had farming experience ranging from five to 34 years. They have an average of three to four members of the family working on the farm. Upon emigrating to the Middle East, thirty-two farmlands were instructed to relatives and 45 to X hired laborers, 23 respondents left the management of their farm to their spouses and children. Only three of the respondents managed to buy another farmland. As a result of their emigration to the Middle East, both farm income and farm production decreased. Before emigration the mean farm income was 4,998.00 per hectare but decreased to $4,680.00 upon emigration. Farm production likewise decreased as a result of emigration. Before, coffee crops that used to produce an average of 63.68 cans/ha produced only 51.52 cans per hectare after. Bananas and coconut suffer the same faith although the decrease in the production of the two latter crops were insignificant. Low farm income, necessity to increase family income, personal desire to go places and bad road which inhibit faster development of farming were some of the reasons for the exodus of most farmer of Daine to work abroad. The majority of the farmer-contract worker works to the Middle East belong to lower level education group, married with bigger family and lower to middle group.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Materials specified	URL	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Theses / Manuscripts	Ladislao N. Diwa Memorial Library Theses Section	Non-fiction	331.7631 M37 1986 (Browse shelf(Opens below))		Link to resource	Room use only	T-921		00001131

Thesis (BS in Agriculture Major in Agricultural Economics) Don Severino Agricultural College.

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College of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Natural Resources (CAFENR)

MASANA, CRISTINA V. "A Comparative Study on Farm Income and Production of Farmer-Contact Workers of Daine, Indang, Cavite". B.S. Undergraduate Thesis, Don Severino Agricultural College, Indang, Cavite. April 1986. Adviser: Prof. Camilo F. Guevara, Jr.

This study was conducted to determine the socio- economic characteristics of the farmer-contract workers of Daine, Indang, Cavite and to compare their income and farm production before and after the farmer emigrated. In this study, 100 respondents were interviewed. Frequency counts, percentages, ranks and t-tests were the statistical tools used in the study. As revealed in this study, the farmer-contract workers of Daine had the following socio-economic characteristics: mean age of 39 years, majority were married, had somehow attended/finished elementary and high school with others who even had vocational or collegiate schooling. Average family size was four to six children. Eighty-seven were landowners and all of them were practicing multiple-cropping system of farming (banana-coconut- coffee). Most of them had farming experience ranging from five to 34 years. They have an average of three to four members of the family working on the farm. Upon emigrating to the Middle East, thirty-two farmlands were instructed to relatives and 45 to X hired laborers, 23 respondents left the management of their farm to their spouses and children. Only three of the respondents managed to buy another farmland.

As a result of their emigration to the Middle East, both farm income and farm production decreased. Before emigration the mean farm income was 4,998.00 per hectare but decreased to $4,680.00 upon emigration. Farm production likewise decreased as a result of emigration. Before, coffee crops that used to produce an average of 63.68 cans/ha produced only 51.52 cans per hectare after. Bananas and coconut suffer the same faith although the decrease in the production of the two latter crops were insignificant. Low farm income, necessity to increase family income, personal desire to go places and bad road which inhibit faster development of farming were some of the reasons for the exodus of most farmer of Daine to work abroad. The majority of the farmer-contract worker works to the Middle East belong to lower level education group, married with bigger family and lower to middle group.