Ramos, Blesila Reyes <br/><br/>
Women's participation in the azolla program of Nueva Vizcaya/ 
Blesila Reyes Ramos 
 - Bayombong:  Nueva Vizcaya State Institute of Technology,  1996 
 - xx, 221 leaves :  illustrations ;  28 cm. 
<br/><br/> 	This study was conducted to describe participation of rural women in Nueva Vizcaya in the azolla program of the Province. It was also done to analyze the relationship of participation in the azolla program with the respondent's demographic, and psychological characteristics, as well as with community-related factors.<br/><br/>	A sample of seventy-one women participants/adopters of azolla technology representing the available population of about 100, who attended the trainings in the selected six municipalities of Nueva Vizcaya was drawn by purposive sampling. An interview schedule consisting of four parts was used to gather the needed information. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics, and multiple regression and correlation analyses.<br/><br/>	The demographic factors studied were as follows: ethnicity, religious affiliation, family income, family size, educational attainment, land tenure status, membership in organization, and working in the farm or not Psychological factors included were aside from household. The Psychological factors include were the positive and negative components of attitude such as, thoughts, feelings and behavioral tendencies. While the community related consisted of the environmental (physical and biological factors aspects of the farming system such as, distance and type of water source for the farm, location of farm, cropping pattern, combination of commodities, and project component implemented), decision-making patterns (who dominates in the farm and household), technical assistance / resource constraints (satisfaction on external services received), and socio-cultural influences  (degree influence exerted to women-participants by various groups).<br/><br/>	The participation in azolla program was high, moderate, low, and very low participation. categorized into high, moderate, low, and very low participation.<br/><br/>Statement of Hypotheses<br/>The hypotheses tested were as follows:<br/><br/>1.	Nueva Vizcaya women's participation in meetings, trainings, workshops and other similar activities do not significantly correlate with demographic, psychological, and community-related factors and their combination.<br/>2.	Nueva Vizcaya women's participation in planning. implementation, and evaluation of azolla program do not significantly correlate with demographic, psychological, and community-related factors and their combination.<br/>3.	Nueva Vizcaya activities women's related to in participation azolla project various do not significantly correlate with demographic, psychological, and community-related factors and their combination.<br/><br/>Findings<br/><br/>	Results showed that the respondents were predominantly Ilocano; mostly Roman Catholics; low income earners; and had a mean family size of five. Majority have relatively higher education and farm owner-operators. More than half were members of an organization in the community. They worked in the aside from household chores and other occupation. They farm also involve themselves in various activities, as partners in decision making, and helper/unpaid worker in the farm and household. They were moderately motivated in their attitude thoughts. seen in their feelings, and behavioral tendencies towards azolla technology utilization.<br/><br/>	Their farms were generally near to water source which they used for irrigation. Monocropping was often practiced, while for a multicommodity, rice fish vegetable / livestock was most acceptable. The project component mostly implemented was azolla-rice.<br/><br/>	Ordinarily, husband and wife had independent, as joint decisions in managing the farm were made relative and household. Decisions were made relative to their needs and priorities. Their first priority regarding decisions capability and need for food. Women usually influenced men mostly in deciding when to borrow money.<br/><br/>	Moderate satisfaction to services received from implementing agency/ organization (such as; capital, loan, and credit; supply of inoculum; technical assistance; information and know how; contact with change agent; incentive and/or motivation; and other support services like irrigation, infrastructure and others) was also observed. Problems on irrigation remained to be an obstacle which was a factor needed to resolve first before considering participation in the azolla program.<br/><br/>	On the whole, the rural women's participation in the azol-la program in Nueva Vizcaya was moderate.<br/><br/>	The demographic factors, specifically being minor religious group, having low a member of family income, higher educational attainment, owning the land and working in the farm were significantly related to participation in meetings and other related activities. Similarly, the same variables with the addition of having larger family size and being a member and/or leader in organization made the demographic variables significantly related to participation in various activities related to azolla project.<br/><br/>	Generally, the respondents showed high motivation towards azolla technology. Majority of the respondents were highly motivated on the positive and negative thoughts, in the positive aspect of feeling as considered aspects of well as in the positive and negative behavioral behavioral tendencies. They were, however moderately motivated in terms of the negative feelings. On the average, however, they indicated moderate degree of motivation in all aspects of their attitude, whether thoughts, feelings or behavioral tendencies. The higher their motivation, the greater their participation. Azolla technology being perceived as beneficial, are acceptable to the farmers but,<br/><br/>	The community-related factors like farm near a water source; of pump use supplement 85 source of water aside from the irrigation; farm located in the interior plain; monocropping pattern; commodity combination using rice/fish/ vegetable /livestock; azolla-rice component: wife dominates in decision-making; being satisfied with external services; and implementing agency / organization having greater degree of influence to participation. women. were all significantly related to participation.<br/><br/>	The combination demographic, psychological, and community-related factors were significantly related to participation in meetings, and other similar activities and in various specific activities regarding azolla project, but not related to participation in planning, implementation, and evaluation of the azolla project. Using a backward stepwise regression, Model 2 was developed to arrive at a significant relationship between the dependent (participation in planning, Implementation, and evaluation) and independent (combined demographic, psychological and community-related factors) variables.<br/>	Fourteen of the 23 predictors have negative or deductive effect on the level of participation in meetings, trainings, and workshops while the nine remaining variables (i.e., having higher educational attainment, working in the farm, being highly motivated or having favorable attitude, near to source of water, farm located in the interior plain, commodity combination being rice/fish/ vegetable/livestock, and implementing agency having greater degree of influence to women) have additive effect on participation.<br/><br/>	Thirteen of the 19 predictors from Model 2 have negative or deductive effect on the level of participation in planning, implementation and evaluation while the six remaining variables (i.e., being member of an organization, having favorable attitude or being highly motivated, location of farm being on the interior plain, practicing monocropping and implementing agency /influence organization having greater degree of effect on participation.<br/><br/>	Also, in participation in various specific activities, 14 of the 23 predictors have negative or deductive effect while the nine remaining variables (i.e., having larger family size, higher educational attainment, owning the land, being member and / or leader of an organization, having favorable attitude or being highly motivated, wife dominating in decision-making, and agency/organization having greater influence) have additive effect on participation.<br/>  Thesis (Master of Science in Rural Development)<br/> 
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