We can see foreign social scientists crisscrossing our archipelago doing research on the Philippines. It has been like this since the arrival of the western powers and up to this day wherein we leave the burden of the search for indigenous knowledge and wisdom to the foreign scholars. Setting the foreign researchers’ feat aside, doing social science research with this type of result in view is an insurmountable task that has been adequately accomplished by the team of faculty members from the University of Southeastern Philippines and Davao Oriental State College of Science and Technology with the generous support of Senator Loren Legarda. From the first four pages bearing the introduction, it can be deduced right away that this manuscript is a product of an exciting fieldwork and rigorous ethnography –a commendable endeavor indeed. Reassuringly, I am making it clear that this breakthrough research should be continued for it is time that the local academia must take into its hands the thrust of documenting and preserving indigenous knowledge systems within its geographical vicinity. The familiarity and the proximity of the academic communities with the indigenous communities do not only project the idea of awareness, but also the degree of interest and intellectual curiosity that will facilitate in the tapping of the indispensable communities for the enhancement of the existing education policies, research agenda, and pedagogical endeavors among others. With the great merits this book has and the use of English language in its text, I am sure that this book will not be only used in the local academic communities, but it will find its way into the many libraries and university holdings in the country and abroad.
The study was undertaken to: a) describe the profile of the growers of cutfiowers in the provinces of Davao Oriental, Davao del Sur, and Davao Province, b) determine gender labor distribution in the activities and, c) identify the problems of the gpwers in the three provinces. Findings revealed that ail of the growers were beyond the age of 30. Majority were female, college graduates, government employees, had 5 to 8 household members, had an annual income of P 100,000.00 or less primarily obtained from employment and farming, and have been cutflower growers in their own land for more than ten years. The growing of cutflowers is essentially a woman's activity in the growing of chrysanthemum, anthurium, roses and orchids. However, the husbands in Davao Oriental participate more actively than the husbands in the two other provinces. Their children were not actively involved in their parents' activities in the growing of cutflowers. The growers have identified a number of problems in the growing of cutflowers, namely: lack of proper diagnosis and control of plant pests and diseases, constrained access to new technologies and planting materials, increasing cost of input, inadequate information on the postproduction technologies for the packaging and transport of flowers, and the influx of imported flowers during peak periods.
The objectives of the study were: (1) to present a profile of the participants in the Davao Oriental State College of Science and Technology Institute for Local Government Administration (DOSCST-ILGA) training programs on Barangay Development Planning (BDP) and on Barangay Finance (BF); (2) to determine the effectiveness of the management support of DOSCST-ILGA's training programs on BDP and on BF in terms of budget, personnel, and trainers; (3) to determine effectivity of training programs on BDP and on BF in enabling the participants to formulate •a barangay development plan and a barangay budget, respectively; and (4) to determine which variables are significantly related to the effectiveness of the training programs. The sample of 64 for the BDP training was purposely selected from a population base of barangay officials from 30 barangays in the municipalities of San Isidro and Banaybanay who participated in the training programs. For the training on BF, a complete enumeration of the participants (i.e., 34) from the 14 barangays of Banaybanay was made. The quality of the development plans and the barangay budgets were rated by experts in the fields of planning and of budgeting, respectively. Participants in the training programs were predominantly male, adults (36 years old and over), married, high school graduates, and without much experience in local government administration prior to their positions in the barangays.
The study examined the changes, if any, in the strategies employed by a group of Mandaya’s in Calapagan, Lupon and in Sitio Taganilao, Tamisan, Mati - both in Davao Oriental - in upland farming and in resource utilization and management years after their integration into the mainstream of Philippine society. It also aimed to find out if this group continued their ancestors' practice of using the areas' plants with curative effect or medicinal value in the light of advances in the field of medicine. Findings suggest that, like other Philippine indigenous groups, this group of Mandaya’s has been affected by its contact with lowlanders. The depletion in the quantity of the products regularly churned out by the forests, the seas, and the rivers due to man's exploitation of the earth's natural resources has changed them from being self-reliant to dependent consumers of the goods produced by the market economy. Their age-old farming practice, though, survives to some degree; a change is evident in that they are now given the opportunity to participate in the protection and conservation of the forests through the integrated social forestry project. Plants identified as having curative or medicinal value are still widely used by the members of the group.
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