Utilization of farm mechanization facilities among rice farmers Sto. Domingo, Nueva Ecija [manuscript]
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2018
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Mark Lyndon A. Baquirin
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The study analyzed the extent of rice farmer's utilization of farm mechanization facilities in Sto. Domingo, Nueva Ecija.
Simple random samples of 226 rice farmers were personally interviewed using an interview schedule. The data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics.
The rice farmers were on the average, 50 years of age, younger than the Filipino farmers in general. They were mostly male, high school graduates, from a family of five, and with a 24-year farming experience.
They were basically percentage farmers, operating an average family income of Php 13,000 per month, all not slightly above the national averages.
The rice farmers had little access to mecahnization support services such as organization and credit services but good access to technical assistance and information support. They generally used two mechanization facilities, particularly hand tractor and combine harvester, which they mainly rented. They found using the facilities beneficial in terms of making farming easy and less costly as well as increasing rice yield.
The farmer's main problems regarding farm mechanization were their limited access to credit and little knowledge of farm mechanization. The solutions they suggested were improving their credit access and training them on farm mechanization.
The correlation test results showed that of all the variables studied age, such us numbers of years in farming, and farm size were associated with farmer's utilization of farm mechanization facilities. meanwhile, sex, educational attainment, family size, yield farm mechanization facilities. Meanwhile, sex, educational attainment, family size, yield per hectare, and family income, were not linked to farmers' utilization of the facilities. Farmer's utilization of mechanization facilities were correlated with their perceived benefits of using those facilities.