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Factors associated with Selected characteristics of students and Institutions in Post-Secondary Farming Programs in the Philippines.
Abstract:
Main objectives of the study were to determine the factors associated with farming oncome knowledge, skills and abilities, and establishment in farminf students at the post-Secondary level. and to find out the problems experienced by the students, instructors and scholl adminisrators in the conduct of farming programs.
Respondents in the study were 275 second-year students enrolled in the two-year Agricultural Technician Curriculum, 36 instructors and 12 school administrators of 12 agricultral schools in different parts of the country. Data were gathered with the use of the survey questionnaire.
Findings revealed for te following characcteristics of the 12 schools age, 31 years; reservations area, 992.92 ha; annual budget and per personel per school, 63.
Student farmers had the following characteristics (average): age 21 years grade in supervised farming practices, 87; academmic grade, 82; farming experience, 5 years; educational attainment of father and mother.
The majority of the students were barrio-reared and were graduates of the general high school. Prents' main occupations were farming and housekeeping.
Of the 26 demegraphic variables analyzed, only occupational aspiration to engage in farming after graduation was significantly related to farm income. Of the 12 independent economic variables. Not a single institutional variable was found significantly correlated with the student's farm income.
Six demograpic variables were significantly reated to the student's average academic grade; type of school graduated from, family income, family size, aspiration to remain tenant, participation in organized activities and residential lot area. Tehe only economic variable significantly related to academic grades was area planted to vegetables.
Trends in the relationship betwwen establishment in the farming and some of the democratic, institutional and economic factors showed that the student-farmers that the stuents-farmers who would likely go into farming after graduation; and financial and material resources provided by the school and parents.
The most serious problems encountered in the conduct of farming programs were lack of capital on the part of the student farmers, providing and securing good farmland of sufficient size on the part of the instructors, and need for financial requirements on the part of the school administrators.