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Bibliographic Data
Control Number
54673
Date and Time of Latest Transaction
20120503221749.PM
General Information
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Cataloging Source
PCARRD
Local Call Number
S 494.5 I5 B38
Main Entry - Personal Name
Bautista, Angelina G.
Title Statement
Confluence of factors affecting innovative behavior of rubber farmers of Southern Mindanao
Summary, Etc.
The study analyzed the innovative behavior of rubber farmers in Southern Mindanao. Specifically, the study aimed to (1) determine the level of innovativeness of rubber farmers with regard to utilization of some recommended rubber farming technology; (2) ascertain the relationship of agricultural innovativeness to attributes of some recommended rubber farming practices; (3) find out the joint effects of some attributes of the rubber farmers, some situational factors, and some perceived attributes of the recommended rubber farming technology on agricultural innovativeness of the farmers; (4) determine the confluence of factors that affect innovativeness. Data for this study were gathered from 205 rubber farmers in five municipalities of North Cotabato and Davao del Sur. The rubber farmers were high in level of innovativeness with regard to utilization of the recommended rubber farming technology. There was significant positive relationship between agricultural innovativeness and characteristics of rubber farmers such as age, educational attainment, annual family income, land tenure, level of living, farming experience, membership in organization, leadership experience, ownership of communication media, use of print, cosmopoliteness, rationality in decision-making, entrepreneurship, empathy and aspiration in life. Likewise, significant positive relationship existed between age of rubber trees, availability of physical farm inputs and hired labor and agricultural innovativeness. There wa
