scholarly journals Participatory Assessment of Resources and Needs of Upland Communities: A Case in Inopacan, Leyte, Philippines

2014 ◽  
pp. 259-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milagros Bales ◽  
Editha Cagasan ◽  
Ma. Victoria Stephane Asio ◽  
Junette Dawn Baculfo ◽  
Loren Gemali Flandez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Processing ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Farming System ◽  
Venn Diagram ◽  
Household Decision ◽  
Rainfed Farming ◽  
Participatory Assessment ◽  
Almost All

Experiences of past projects show that interventions would more likely succeed if these are designed considering the needs and resources of the target beneficiaries. To achieve this end, participatory rural appraisals (PRAs) were conducted in three barangays of Inopacan, Leyte with marginal upland areas. The PRAs were participated by 64 community representing almost all sectors. Tools used residents in data gathering were seasonal calendar, historical timeline, Venn diagram, household labor allocation, household decision-making, livelihood analysis, and problem tree analysis. Results showed that residents’ main livelihood are farming and livestock raising. Major crops planted are coconut, corn, rootcrops, and banana; while animals raised include goats, swine, native chickens and carabaos. Due to limited water supply in the barangays, farmers have to depend on rainfed farming system. To augment family income, some women engage in backyard gardening, and in food processing and selling. Results also revealed that they have experienced problems like infertile soils, and Brontispa longissimi infestation which reduced productivity of coconut. The FGD participants expressed that many people in their locality need other livelihood options to supplement their unstable income from coconut. The livelihood activities that can be enhanced through trainings and technical assistance include farming, animal raising and food processing. Results have implication in planning for more sustainable resource-based management.

scholarly journals Challenges Encountered and Technical Assistance Needed by Parents and Learners Utilizing Modular Distance Learning: Basis for a Proposed Support Program

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 128-135
Author(s):  
Shallimar A. Bayucca
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Reference Materials ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
School Administrators ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Support Program ◽  
Independent Learning ◽  
Additional Reference ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Major Adjustment

The shift from face-to face to distance learning brought about by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic is a major adjustment to all school administrators, teachers, students and parents. The study aimed to determine the challenges encountered and needed support of parents and learners in an elementary school of the Schools Division of Meycauayan City as basis for crafting a contextualized support program. It employed a mixed method design using survey-questionnaire and interview guide as data gathering tools to 123 parents and 10 learners respectively. Frequency and percentage were used to describe the demographic profile, frequency counts and ranking were used on the challenges encountered and support/technical assistance needed by parents while thematic analysis was used to describe the experiences of the learners. The study found out that difficulty in independent learning, difficulty in concentrating on studies and parent’s limited knowledge on the content of child’s lessons are the top struggles of parents in the modular distance learning while almost all learner-respondents describe their experiences of distance learning as difficult because of difficulty in learning by themselves, lack of reference materials for more examples, limited guidance from parents and teachers, challenges in load to research and difficulty in understanding English. Moreover, both respondents are unanimous in declaring that provision of additional reference materials will greatly help lessen the struggles they encountered. Therefore, it is recommended that the support program crafted should be implemented and monitored to fully reinforce the continuity of learning amidst the challenges encountered in the first quarter.

Sources and uses of information on a West Coast dairy farm

2002 ◽  
pp. 31-32
Author(s):  
C. Van der Geest
Keyword(s):  
Milk Production ◽  
Time Pressure ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Technical Information ◽  
Dairy Farm ◽  
Farming System ◽  
Herd Size ◽  
Financial Benefit ◽  
Nitrogen Response ◽  
Directional Information

I am a 30-year-old sharemilker on my parent's 600 cow developing farm near Blackball on the western side of the Grey Valley. Earlier this year I competed in the National Young Farmer of the Year competition and finished a close third. So what is information? There are two types of information that I use. There is data gathered from my farm to help fine tune the running of the day to day operations on the farm And directional information This is the information that arrives in papers and directs the long-term direction and plans of the farm and farming businesses. Due to the variability in weather on the Coast there is a greater need to monitor and adjust the farming system compared to an area like Canterbury. This was shown last year (2001/02) when the farm was undergoing a rapid period of development and I was under time restraints from increasing the herd size, building a new shed as well as developing the farm. The results of the time pressure was that day to day information gathering was lower resulting in per cow production falling by 11% or around $182 per cow. So what information was lacking that caused this large drop in profit. • Pasture growth rates • Cow condition • Nitrogen requirements • Paddock performance • Milk production • Pre-mating heat detection As scientists and advisers I hear you say that it is the farmer's responsibility to gather and analyse this information. You have the bigger topics to research and discover, gene marking, improving pasture species, sexing of sperm and ideas that I have not even contemplated yet. This is indeed very valuable research. Where would farming be without the invention of electric fences, artificial breeding and nitrogen research? But my problem is to take a farm with below average production to the top 10% in production with the existing technology and farming principles. I have all the technical information I need at the end of a phone. I can and do ring my consultant, fertiliser rep, vet, neighbour and due to the size and openness of New Zealand science, at present if they do not know I can ring an expert in agronomy, nutrition, soils and receive the answer that I require. I hope that this openness remains as in a time of privatisation and cost cutting it is a true advantage. I feel that for myself the next leap in information is not in the growing of grass or production of milk but in the tools to collect, store and utilise that information. This being tied to a financial benefit to the farming business is the real reason that I farm. Think of the benefits of being able to read pasture cover on a motorbike instantly downloaded, overlaying cow intake with milk production, changes in cow weight, daily soil temperature and predicted nitrogen response. Telling me low producing cows and poor producing paddocks, any potential feed deficits or surpluses. This would be a powerful information tool to use. The majority of this information is already available but until the restraints of time and cost are removed from data gathering and storage, this will not happen.

The effect of food processing on the amount of trace elements and their bioavailability: a review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maral Neyestani ◽  
Parisa Shavali Gilani ◽  
Mohadeseh Fesahat ◽  
Ebrahim Molaee-Aghaee ◽  
Nabi Shariatifar
Keyword(s):  
Trace Elements ◽  
Trace Metals ◽  
Food Processing ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Food Additives ◽  
Food Product ◽  
Special Method ◽  
Effect Of Food ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Main Factor

Trace elements are compounds that are essential in small amounts for biochemical reactions and to maintain human health. Almost all foods can contain varying amounts of these metals. In this study, the effects of food processing on the content of trace metals are investigated. Extensive interpretations of processing, including aspects of food production and specific examples of changes in metal content due to processing will be discussed. Pre-consumption food processing to improve rheological properties and increase shelf life is inevitable, which changes the bioavailability and amount of these compounds in different directions depending on the process. The amount of these trace metals in the food product can be affected by various conditions such as heating, fermentation, food additives, etc. The main factor in reducing trace elements in food, especially the use of heat in a special method and on the other hand, factors such as fermentation can also increase the bioavailability of these elements.

scholarly journals MOTIVASI PETANI DALAM MEMPERTAHANKAN SISTEM TRADISIONAL PADA USAHATANI PADI SAWAH DI DESA PARBAJU JULU KABUPATEN TAPANULI UTARA PROPINSI SUMATERA UTARA

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-62
Author(s):  
. Reflis ◽  
M. Nurung ◽  
Juliana Dewi Pratiwi
Keyword(s):  
Formal Education ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Rank Correlation ◽  
Farming Systems ◽  
Farming System ◽  
Farm Size ◽  
Rice Farming ◽  
Traditional System ◽  
Size Number ◽  
Rainfed Farming

This research aims to identify factors correlated significantly to the motivation of farmers in perseving traditional rainfed farming systems, such as using local seeds and planting once a year.  The population of this study is farmer who still perform the traditional paddy farming system in the Village of North Tapanuli Parbaju Julu County North Sumatra Province. As much as 48 respondents randomly selected from 160 farmers.  A descriptive analyse and Spearman rank correlation are applied in this study.   The study showed that formal education, farmers' perception of the traditional system of rice farming are correlated significantly to farmer motivation in preserving tradional farming system while non-formal education, the traditional system of farming experience, farm size, number of family members are not.  Factors that correlated significantly to farmer motivation in maintaining local seed is non-formal education, farming experience, while the traditional system of formal education, farmers' perception of traditional rice farming system, farm size, number of family members are not correlated significantly.  Furthermore, the number of family members is merely factor that correlated significantly to the farmers motivation in maintaining once a year plantings while others factors are not correlated. Key words: farmer motivation, preserving, traditional farming

Comparison of Wallace, Nixon, and Humphrey Supporters along Certain Demographic, Attitudinal, and Value-System Dimensions

1973 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Rawls ◽  
C. Wade Harrison ◽  
Donna J. Rawls ◽  
Robert L. Hayes ◽  
August W. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Church Attendance ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Social Recognition ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Stepwise Discriminant Analysis ◽  
Law And Order ◽  
Value System ◽  
Southern States ◽  
Registered Voters ◽  
Almost All

A 28-item questionnaire and the Rokeach Value Survey were administered to 298 registered voters in 12 Southern states. The questionnaire included (1) background information such as age, marital status, education, family income, church attendance, etc., and (2) attitudinal data such as Hawk-Dove, law and order, integration-segregation issues, etc. In addition, the 18 terminal values of the Rokeach scale were rank-ordered by all Ss. The data were first analyzed so as to describe Wallace, Nixon, and Humphrey supporters along demographic, attitudinal, and value-system dimensions. A stepwise discriminant analysis indicated that seven values accounted for almost all of the variance. In order of discriminatory power, these values are as follows: equality, national security, world of beauty, inner harmony, pleasure, social recognition, and family security.

Recognizing Physical Activity of hospitalized Older People from Wearable Sensors Data using IoT

2022 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Keyword(s):  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Performance Metrics ◽  
Wearable Sensors ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Elderly Person ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Classification Algorithms ◽  
Complex Task ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Different Sources

The IoT is a new concept that provides a world where smart, connected, embedded systems operate, giving rise to the amount of data from different sources that are considered to have highly useful and valuable information. Data mining would play a critical role in creating smarter IoT. Traditional care of an elderly person is a difficult and complex task. The need to have a caregiver with the elderly person almost all the time drains the human and financial resources of the health care system. The emergence of Artificial intelligence has allowed the conception of technical assistance where it helps and reduces the time spent by the caregiver with the elderly person. This work aims to focus on analyzing techniques that are used for prediction purposes of falls in the elderly. We examine the applicability of three classification algorithms for IoT data. These algorithms are analyzed and a comparative study is undertaken to find the classifier that performs the best analysis on the dataset using a set of predefined performance metrics to compare the results of each classifier.

Role of Socio-Technical Assistance (STA) in Private Housing Reconstruction for Vulnerable Community (A case study of Okhaldhunga District, Nepal)

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 106-114
Author(s):  
Tej Bahadur Karki ◽  
Rita Lamsal ◽  
Namita Poudel
Keyword(s):  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Single Women ◽  
Great Earthquake ◽  
Private Housing ◽  
Vulnerable Households ◽  
Housing Reconstruction ◽  
Almost All

Vulnerability is such stage when such people and group can be easily harmed physically or emotionally. They are always in risk in natural or man-made disaster so such people and groups should be cared and supported by all concerns. Great earthquake of August 2015, many old age people, poor, single women, child-headed family and disable family become vulnerable in earthquake affected districts of Nepal. So, Nepal Government had deployed the Socio-Technical Assistance (STA) team to support the vulnerable households. The main objective of this study was to identify the role of STA in private housing reconstruction of vulnerable household. The study was conducted in Okhaldhunga district among the 35 vulnerable households. The study was based on the mixed method so both quantitative and qualitative method was used to collect the data. The findings show that majority of ethnic group who were more than 70 years old were in urgent need of support who were fully supported by STA. almost all beneficiaries were happy with the support and behaviour of STA. economically, 44.1% household had spent more than 3 Lakh to build the house so they had to manage the additional amount. They had taken loan from relative and neighbor so Nepal Government should provide livelihood support to such household to improve their socio-economic status.

scholarly journals Characterization of goat production systems in five states of northeastern Brazil

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (6Supl3) ◽  
pp. 3691 ◽  
Author(s):  
Areano Ethério Moreira de Farias ◽  
José Romero Alexandre Alves ◽  
Francisco Selmo Fernandes Alves ◽  
Raymundo Rizaldo Pinheiro ◽  
Patrícia Yoshida Faccioli-Martins ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Farming System ◽  
Northeastern Brazil ◽  
Forage Production ◽  
The Social ◽  
Goat Population ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
Technological Level ◽  
Goat Farming

Goat farming is a very important activity contributing to the social and economic development of northeastern (NE) Brazil. The objective of the present study was to characterize the goat farming production system in five of the nine states that constitute the Brazilian NE (Ceará, Paraíba, Piauí, Rio Grande do Norte, and Sergipe). Research was carried out in 230 rural properties located in 62 municipalities of the NE of Brazil, in regions exhibiting a productive arrangement and significant goat population density. An epidemiological questionnaire seeking information on economic, productive, and social aspects of owners/properties was supplied to all properties. The results described the goat farming system in the Brazilian NE as family and subsistence, directed towards domestic consumption and local commerce, and exhibiting a low technological level. The farmers' education level, investments, and technical assistance were all considered low, and thus insufficient or inadequate for a full development of the activity in the region. Therefore, such aspects are suggested to be taken into account in the planning of future goat farming development policies—particularly financing and technical assistance, better preparation of farmers, administrative aspects, forage production and conservation, and the implementation of actions towards reproductive and frequent disease control.

scholarly journals Impact of child labor in stone quarries on his health status in El- Minia city

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 167
Author(s):  
Naglaa Saad Abd EL-Aty ◽  
Nazek Ibrahim Abd EL-Ghany ◽  
Farag Mohammed Moftah ◽  
Shokria Adly Labeeb ◽  
Awatef Abdel-Razak Mohammed
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Child Labor ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Working Children ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Assessment Sheet ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Minia City

Background: Child labor today represents the largest single cause of child abuse across the global. Most of it takes place in economically less developed countries and much is hidden.Objectives: The aims of this study were to found out the nature and impact of child labor in the stone quarries on his health status and assess the work hazards associated with these concern.Methods Design: A descriptive comparative design was used .Setting: at stone quarries in El-Minia city and two Governmental schools (primary and preparatory).Sample: Study consisted sample of two groups: two hundred working children (studied group) and three hundred school children as control group.Tools: Three tools were developed and utilized. Socio-demographic characteristics, assessment sheet, and Observation check list.Results: It was found that the mean age studied group was 13.0± 1.2, compared to 12.0± 1.2for control group. More than half of studied group of studied group were working for the need to money and to share in family income. About two third of studied group exposed to different types of injuries during work in quarry. There was statistical significant difference between studied and control group groups regarding body mass index physical assessment and bad habits. Also the results of this study explored that most of studied group exposed to all items of work hazards.Conclusion: It can be concluded that almost all working children in stone quarries were facing much health complains and working hazards.Recommendations: Quarries owners should provide all working children with appropriate protective measures and trained them on methods of protecting themselves from work hazards.

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