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Backyard Farming Scope

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1.4 Scope and Limitations of the Study
The goal of the study is to examine the effects of backyard farming to the income, savings and food security of low-income families in Barangay Banay-Banay II in San Jose, Batangas. The study will consider how the families increase and manage their money in meeting their basic needs through engaging in backyard farming. This will also look into the methods of backyard farming relevant in improving their income, budget and food security.

This study focuses on the capability of backyard gardening as an instrument to augment income and improve food security within low-pay groups. It will cover the advantages and disadvantages common to backyard gardening. The inhabitants of Barangay Banay-Banay II who utilizes …show more content…

The theory states that families are both producers and consumers of goods. In an effort to maximize utility, families attempt to efficiently allocate time, income and the collection of goods and services they both produce and use. Household production relates to all the output that a household produces including production related to work. Household consumption includes all things that are consumed by a household including things like food, sleep, and leisure.The overall theory’s goal is to explain the interactions and relationships between consumption, production and time.

The Household Production Theory is related to the study because the respondents, which are the families engaging in backyard farming, are both producers and consumers. Specifically, they produce crops and vegetables which are needed in the market so they can sell it. They are also consumers because they can consume the vegetables and crops they harvested so that they will have enough food. Those households engaging in backyard farming in Banay Banay II are applicable to this theory because they conduct activities such as household production and household …show more content…

Families who have a farm in their backyard acquire inputs such as raw materials, seeds, fertilizers and farming tools and machines. They will utilize these resources to be able to yield an output which are vegetables or crops. The families engaging in backyard farming utilizes their resources to create goods such as vegetable which has value in the market. They combine their inputs to produce goods for consumption.

1.6 Conceptual Framework
The inputs that cause the phenomenon are the methods of backyard farming used by the families and the effects of backyard farming to the food, budget and income of the family. In our process, we gather data through conducting interviews and performing observations. As an output, backyard farming will yield food security, additional income, more savings for the family and the enhancement of tools and crops in backyard

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