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    Small farmers' adoption of rice combine harvesters in Binalbagan, Negros Occidental
    Bayona, Kate Ashley S.; Solano, Mirjana Antoinette (Division of Social Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, University of the Philippines Visayas, 2024-06)
    The use of Rice Combine Harvesters (RCH) is currently pushed as part of the country's mechanization program in agriculture. Much of the literature assessing the adoption of RCH only focuses on the tangible determinants of their adoption, but not the in-depth sociological lived experience of farmers following their adoption, including their nuanced rationalization amidst the process. This study investigated the RCH adoption among small farmers in Binalbagan, Negros Occidental, specifically delving into the (1) characteristics of farmers, (2) drivers of RCH adoption, (3) challenges faced during adoption, (4) nature of frequency and consistency of RCH use, and (5) adjustment strategies in using the RCH pursued through descriptive phenomenology and an in-depth interview of 12 participants through purposive sampling. Thematic analysis revealed that the small farmers belong to the early majority adopter category whose adoption is highly facilitated by membership in Irrigators’ Associations and lack of manual laborers. The regularity of their usage also depended on climate, laborers, topography, and farm systems and confronted issues with wastage, additional cost and labor, and field damage to RCH that was mitigated through mediating previous and current farm set ups and maintaining affirmative social relationships within the community. These findings depict the complexities in small fanners’ RCH adoption and the intricacies of their receptivity in each region calling for larger analysis of RCH adoption in the country to know its general status and underscores the need for the implementation and development of national policies like technology diffusion to be contextually sensitive and pro-farmers.
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    Isugid sa luy-a: "Professional" competence in Tibiaoanon's healing rituals and practices —from 1978 to 2021
    Alvarado, Samantha Joy A. (Division of Social Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, University of the Philippines Visayas, 2022-07)
    Following the interactions between the local healer’s ethnomedical knowledge and professional’s modern medical practices, this study forwards the idea of professional competence, as a reciprocation of Cross et. al’s Cultural Competence theory, which shifts the focus of examination from medical experts to Tibiao traditional local healers who had subscribed and adopted the methods and principles of medical professionals. A documentation of the predominant healing rituals in Tibiao, Antique, namely, pangluy-a, pagbutbot, and pagtong-li as well as Tibiaoanon’s concept of health and illnesses was done to anchor the analysis of professional competence. Using the idea of Espanola on cultural competence, particularly, on cultural self-assessment and integration of knowledge in the health practices, this study analyzed the narratives of the respondents and proved that professional competence manifested in how manugbulongs or local healers assessed and acknowledged their views about their selves and about medical professionals and their practices throughout the period of 1978- 2021. Another manifestation of professional competence is the integration of medical knowledge through having referral systems to the doctor and the use of modern synthetic medicine to complement the healing rituals. Key informant interviews and participant observation were done with 15 respondents (manugbulongs and their patients) coming from Barangay Malabor, Barangay Martinez, and Barangay San Francisco Sur in Tibiao, Antique. Expanding on the cultural competence theory, professional competence, therefore, showed that manugbulongs did not necessarily resist and reject the influences of modernity but rather acknowledged and appropriated it to their own ethnomedical system.