Research Paper
Year: 2019 | Month: April | Volume: 6 | Issue: 4 | Pages: 229-234
Assessment of Farmer Livestock School on Goat Enterprise Management (FLS-GEM) As a Training Modality in Northern Mindanao, Philippines
Reynaldo L. Intong
Central Mindanao University, Musuan, Bukidnon, Philippines
ABSTRACT
This paper focused on the assessment of the Farmer Livestock School on Goat Enterprise Management (FLS-GEM) as a promotional/training modality in improving goat farm performance in Northern Mindanao, Philippines. This assessment was made after FLS-GEM was implemented in the three provinces of Northern Mindanao namely; Bukidnon and Misamis Oriental, from January 2013 to December 2016. Only 10% of the FLS-GEM graduates and only those that had at least a year of adoption of a specific technology were considered in this assessment. To determine the degree of technology adoption, the adoption pattern and reasons for a shift or continuous adoption of a technology, the technology timeline method was used. The effect of FLS- GEM in the lives, community or in the groups where they belong was determined using the impact benefit matrix. Results revealed the following: 1. The degree of adoption of the FLS- GEM graduates varied. Majority of them were early adaptors of the different technology or tech mixes such as proper housing, stall-feeding with grasses, strategic deworming, vitamin /antibiotic supplementation and upgrading of stock using either upgraded buck or artificial insemination, 2. The said training had a positive effect on their personal competence, farm productivity, and community assets and 3. Major crops in the area, availability of labor and number of goats the farmer kept had contributed significantly to the adoption pattern of the graduates.
Key words: farmer livestock school, goat enterprise, participatory assessment
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