Home⇛International Journal of Multidisciplinary: Applied Business and Education Research⇛vol. 6 no. 9 (2025)

Farmers’ Aspirations, Happiness, and Sugarcane Production in the Visayas, Philippines

Paulino A. Oñal Jr. | Francis E. Andrade | Paulino Miguel M. Oñal

Discipline: Agriculture

 

Abstract:

Aspirations are long-term ambitions in one’s life. Farmers aspire to achieve happiness in their faming activities. Happy farmers are satis-fied individual that can easily increase their sugarcane production. The study aims to measure the aspirations of the farmers and its cor-relation to the level of the production of sugarcane crop in the Philip-pines. Descriptive method was employed in the study. The instrument used was the validated survey questionnaire used by the group of Oñal on their study in 2021. The 320 sugarcane farmers were ran-domly identified at the seven locations in the Visayas area of the Phil-ippines. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) shows that there’s a significant difference in the production of sugarcane among location with an av-erage of 50-64 Tons Cane per hectare (TC/ha) (alpha = 0.05). Further-more, a significant differences in terms of farmers emotional well-be-ing (happy farmers) indicates a high production of >65 TC/ha (alpha = 0.05). Relatively, the degree of farmers’ happiness have weak to moderate correlation with sugarcane production (alpha = 0.01). Con-sidering that farmers degree of happiness indicates a weak to moder-ate correlation with productivity, interventions that enhance farmers’ well-being such as; stable pricing, affordable credit, and efficient mill-ing may indirectly contribute to improved yields.



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