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    Attributes to the efficient of the technical agriculture curriculum at the Rajamangala Institute of Technology, Surin, Thailand
    (1989) Ampan Prombutr
    This research undertaking aimed to assess the efficiency of the technical agriculture curriculum and the attributes related to it at the Rajamangala Institute of Technology, Surin, Thailand. A total of 83 faculty members and administrators of the institute represented the respondents. A structured interview schedule was used in the data collection. Majority of the respondents were males (73.5%) with a mean age of 37.93 years, single (78.3%) and have finished a bachelor's degree (56.6%). They were low income earners with a mean income of 56,266.24 bahts (approximately 45,000 pesos or 1780 US Dolalrs). In general, they (56.6%) had short experience in the service, have been in their position either as faculty or administrator for quite a short time (68.7%), and could be considered relatively new in the curriculum (83.1%). Most of them (74.7%) had previous experience in curriculum planning and were partially involved in the curriculum as a whole. Five aspects of institutionalized program support namely: development program, services provided, teaching facilities and materials, faculty development and fringe benefits were provided by the institute to boost the development of the curriculum. The technical agriculture curriculum was generally acceptable as mchanism for expediting student development; for attaining the goal of the school to partake in the national development; and for the overall community development via its graduates. The objectives/ goals of the curriculum were almost all fully accomplished. Of the perceived productive accomplishments of the curriculum the improvement of the living condition was fully accomplished. Moreover, activities which would support their curriculum were less sufficient. The different services provided by the institution and teaching facilities and materials were both just sufficient to carry out and support their curriculum. Faculty development and fringe benefits were less sufficient. The most important contribution of the curriculum was that knowledge, aptitude and practice/skills may be applied in agricultural communities. In the planning stage of the curriculum, the primary problem encountered was the lack of finding out the actual problem in the communities. In the implementation stage, there was insufficient equipment and lack of budget. It was a common belief that there was no delegation of duties on the part of the manager re-daministration work in the management stage of the curriculum. No follow-up of the curriculum, that is, it was rarely evaluated and few administrators gave full attention to the curriculum's evaluation (67.5%) were the problem encountered in the evaluation stage of the curriculum. However, even with some weaknesses and negative perceptions rgarding the curriculum, faculty members as well as the administrators still hope for the continuation of the program. Simple correlation analysis revealed that there was no relationship between the total independent variables, respondents' socio-economic characteristics as well as institutionalized program support with the total dependent variables, curriculum's efficiency and thus, both null hypotheses of the research were accepted. Apparently, both manpower and material support are not sufficient to attain a curriculum's desired efficiency. More importantly, it reflects the presence of some touchy problems not only from the administrators and faculty planning/managing/implementing/evaluating the curriculum but also from the technical agriculture curriculum itself. On a per variable level, three socio-demographic variables namely: income, years of work experience and years with the curriculum were negatively correlated with the curriculum's efficiency. This means that junior faculty members who have lesser income and fewer years of work and curriculum involvement regarded the technical agriculture curriculum better and thus contributed more to the curriculum's efficiency. For institutionalized program support, highly significant correlation was noted with some efficiency variables. Perceived sufficiency of institutionalized curriculum support was related to all support variables; performed targets were related to development program support services and faculty development. These specified significant variables contributory to better curriculum efficiency should, therefore, be singled out for continuity and further improvement to attain a rosier picture of the Rajamangala Institute of Technology's technical agriculture curriculum's efficiency, in particular and development in general.
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    Factors associated with the role of women in the financial aspect of rice production and distribution in two Philippine villages
    (1990) Beena Pradhan
    This study analyzed the role of women in the financial aspect of rice production and distribution considering irrigated and rainfed Philippine rice farming villages. A total of 146 rural women were randomly selected and responded to an interview schedule. Women respondents were above 40 years and were generally older in irrigated area. The family size was six and five in irrigated and rainfed areas, respectively. There was relatively small farm size (2.05 hectares) and family income was only 62,655.00 pesos per annum which could not fully sustain family's farm and basic needs. In rainfed area, the economic situation was even worse. Moreover, while majority of the women in both areas did not have extended family to financially support, job opportunity outside farming to augment income was not also available. There is also low educational attainment, and training related to rice farming was wanting. Farming experience was, however, long enough, women were also members of different organizations in both areas. The rice distribution activities in both areas as well as in irrigated area only were always participated by the respondents as perceived by women themselves and as they perceived to be their husband's attitude, respectively. All the other participations on rice production and distribution were generally perceived to be sometimes allowed by their husbands and sometimes done by themselves. There are full agreement to the perceived rice production meaning primarily on the basic necessity, economic importance, and contribution to development reasons. However, there was only one distribution meaning that women fully agreed on "for market exchange". The nature of women's role in the financial aspect of rice production was mainly compulsory in both irrigated and rainfed areas. All financial activities in rice production were moderately performed by women except for borrowing money where it was rated to be fully performed in rainfed area. Furthermore, all rice distribution financial activities were moderately performed but distribution for food and market exchange purposes was noted to be fully performed by women. Nature of women's role was significantly associated with two variables, women's perceived meaning of rice production and her participation in production and distribution of rice in both areas. Moreover, in irrigated area, these two variables including membership in organization were also significantly associated to the nature of role. In irrigated area, level of actual role was related to non-farming job opportunity, membership in organization and wife's perception of her role in production and distribution. In rainfed area, significant associations were found in family income, non-farming job opportunity, wife's perception of husband's attitude toward her participation and women's own perception of her role in production and distribution. Finally, there was no significant difference in the nature as well as the level of actual role performed by women in the financial aspect of rice production and distribution in both areas in, irrigated and rainfed.