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    Economic analysis of rice farming under differential tenurial arrangements in Sibalom, Antique
    Basañes, Lorvi Ann A.; Rondrique, Clyde G. (Division of Social Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, University of the Philippines Visayas, 1997-03)
    This study was undertaken in order to acquire informations about the effects of tenurial arrangments on the productivity and profitability of rice farms in Sibalom, Antique, from the operators view point. The study found out that the practices of rice farms did not essentially vary among farms of different tenure arrangements, though some slight differences had been discovered. Furthermore, it was also discovered that tenurial arrangement greatly affected the distribution of gains from farming. Though share-tenanted farms proved to be the most profitable from the operators point of view, the conpensation that the operators received were quite inadequate to compensate the cost in using owned inputs. Moreover, other tenurial arrangements, leasehold and owner-operated, revealed to be less profitable than the one mentioned earlier. In terms of its effect on productivity, tenurial arrangements were found to explain an insignificant variation in the farms output. The study concluded that tenurial arrangements did really have a significant effect on productivity and the production practices of rice farmers, though in the profitability side, it proved to be otherwise. Of the problems presented, the emergence of rats and the golden kuhol pestilence in the rice fields were pointed out as the primary reasons for the decline in the productivity of rice farms in Sibalom, Antique. Aside from the propagation of government support programs and the transformation and empowerment of rice farmer cooperatives, the study also recommended that a closer look on share-tenancy must be done by the goverment so as to eliminate its equity undesirability, instead of outlawing the said tenurial arrangement which proved, in this study, to be the most efficient tenurial arrangement in rice farming.
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    The economics of loom weaving industry in Miag-ao, Iloilo
    Balindua, Trini Rose Philippe N.; Fuentespina, Pierra M. (2004-03)
    The study determined and analyzed the economic profitability of the loom weaving industry in Miag-ao, Iloilo. Specifically, the study described the socio-demographic profile of owners and laborers, determined the economic profitability, the cost and returns, the contractual arrangement between the owners and laborers, and identified the problems encountered in the industry The primary data were mainly gathered from 5 owners and 2 cooperative chairpersons, and 35 weavers who comprised the study population. The respondents came from the different barangays of Banbanan, Bugtong Naulid, Bulucaue, Dawog, Guibongan and Indag-an of the town of Miagao, Iloilo where loom weaving firms are situated and weavers are concentrated. Employing the cost and return analysis, results showed that loom weaving industry earned positive economic profit. Gross profit amounted to PhP 9,079.83 and financial profit of PhP 8,738.67. The payback period is 4.04 months. Return to the laborer is valued at PhP 5,431.35, and returns to the owner is PhP 7,736.46. The problems encountered in the loom weaving industry were the cheap compensation of laborers, health problems, old age and poor eye sight, the delay on the provision of materials by the owners to their laborers, lack of buyers during lean season, and the improbability of the return of finished products by the laborers and the loss of interest of the younger generation in the industry.