Questionnaire for conventional farmers - Questionnaire regarding to organic rice farming

CHAPTER IX: MAIN CONCLUSION AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS

1. Questionnaire regarding to organic rice farming

1.2. Questionnaire for conventional farmers

10. Housing land size: Long = _________m²; Wide = _________m²

III. Farming Information

1. How many rice fields did you produce rice? ________________

2. Did you practice with SRI? [ ] Yes=1; [ ] No=0

3. If yes, how many fields did you do with SRI? ____________________

4. Why did you practice SRI on these rice fields? _________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________________

5. Total land size (exclude house land) and other additional information

Questions Plot1 Plot2 Plot3 Plot4 Plot5 Plot6 Plot7 Plot8 Size (L x W)

What did you do on these fields?

6. Rice fields information

Questions Plot1 Plot2 Plot3 Plot4

7. Name of variety ____________ ____________ ____________ ____________

8. Types of varieties [ ] early [ ] medium [ ] late

[ ] early [ ] medium [ ] late

[ ] early [ ] medium [ ] late 9. Sources of variety: how did you get

these varieties?

[ ] market [ ] others [ ] own self

[ ] market [ ] others [ ] own self 10. Type of rice fields:

Conventional Used to be organic Organic

[ ] [ ] [ ]

11. Distance from house __________m __________m __________m __________m 12. Access to water supply [ ] Yes=1

[ ] No=0

[ ] Yes=1 [ ] No=0

[ ] Yes=1 [ ] No=0 13. Did you do it in dry season? [ ] Yes; [ ] No [ ] Yes; [ ] No [ ] Yes; [ ] No [ ] Yes; [ ] No 14. Did you plant anything before or

after harvesting?

[ ] Yes; [ ] No [ ] Yes; [ ] No [ ] Yes; [ ] No [ ] Yes; [ ] No

15. If yes, please list it. 1.

16. Is it your own or rent from others? [ ] Own [ ] Rent

[ ] Own [ ] Rent

[ ] Own [ ] Rent 17. Price of rented fields (PC) ____________ ____________ ____________ ____________

18. How many yields did you get?

[ ] No [ ] No [ ] No [ ] No 20. If not, what purpose did you keep

it? ____________ ____________ ____________ ____________

21. How did you sell your rice? [ ] Wet rice [ ] Dried rice [ ] Milled rice

[ ] Wet rice [ ] Dried rice [ ] Milled rice

[ ] Wet rice [ ] Dried rice [ ] Milled rice 22. Price per kg? ____________ ____________ ____________ ____________

IV. Rice production information (only Phkar Rumdoul variety) A. Nursery Preparation

1. How many nurseries did you use for Phkar Rumdoul? ________ (If sowing, please check here [ ]) 2. How many Kg of seeds did you use for nurseries or sowing? (PC) _______________Kg

3. If you buy, how much it costs per Kg? (PC) ________________

4. Did you apply fertilizers? [ ] Yes; [ ] No 5. If yes, please fill the table bellow (PC)

Name of fertilizer (Both organic & chemical)

Amount (Local unit)

Price (Riel/local unit) (If buying, how is the price)

Remarks

(Please convert the local unit to Kg)

6. Did you use pesticide in nursery? [ ] Yes; [ ] No

7. If yes, how much did you spend? (PC) _______________

8. How did you prepare the nursery? [ ] Man power=0; [ ] Animal power=1; [ ] Machinery=2 9. Is it your own? [ ] My own=1; [ ] Rent=0

10. If your own, how many litters of fuel you use? ___ and how much it cost per litter? (PC) _______

11. If you rented, how much you spend? (PC) _________________

12. How many days did you spend for preparing nursery? (PC) _____________

13. How many people help you? (PC) Family________; Hired________

14. If hiring, how much per day per person? (PC) ______________

15. How many days per week did you visit your nursery? (PC) _____________

B. Land Preparation

1. How many times did you prepare you field? (Ploughing=________; Harrowing=_________) 2. How did you prepare your fields? [ ] Animal=0; [ ] Two-wheel tractor=1; [ ] Tractor=2 3. Is it your own or rent from others? [ ] My own; [ ] Rent

4. If your own, how many litters of fuel you spend? (PC) _________

5. If you rented, how much you spend? (PC) _________________

6. How many days did you spend for land preparation? (PC) _____________

7. How many people help you? (PC) Family________; Hired________

8. If hiring, how much per day per person? (PC) ______________

9. Did you flood the field by pumping water before land preparation? [ ] Yes; [ ] No 10. Is it your own or rent from others? [ ] My own; [ ] Rent

11. If your own, how many litters of fuel you spend? (PC) _________

12. If you rented, how much you spend? (PC) _________________

C. Transplanting

1. How many days of seedling did you transplant? __________

2. Did you remove the seedlings carefully? [ ] Yes; [ ] No 3. How many seedlings did you transplant? _____________

4. Did you transplant it in the row? [ ] Yes; [ ] No 5. Did you hire the labor? [ ] Yes; [ ] No

6. Do you think is it easy to hire the labor in your area? [ ] Yes; [ ] No. Why and why not? _

_______________________________________________________________________________

7. How many days did you spend on removing seedlings? (PC) _____________

8. How many people help you? (PC) Family________; Hired________

9. If hiring, how much per day per person? (PC) ______________

10. How many days did you spend on transplanting? (PC) _____________

11. How many people help you? (PC) Family________; Hired________

12. If hiring, how much per day per person? (PC) ______________

D. Maintaining and controlling

1. How many times did you weed your field? (PC) ____________

2. How many days did you spend on weeding one time? (PC) ____________

3. How many people help you? (PC) Family________; Hired________

4. If hiring, how much per day per person? (PC) ______________

5. What kinds of tools did you use to weed your fields? [ ] Traditional; [ ] Modern 6. Did you spray herbicide? [ ] Yes; [ ] No

7. How much it cost? (PC) ______________

8. How many days did you spend on spraying herbicide? (PC) ____________

9. How many people help you? (PC) Family________; Hired________

10. If hiring, how much per day per person? (PC) ______________

11. What kinds of fertilizers did you applied to the fields? Please list in the table (PC) Name of fertilizer Amount Price (Riel/local unit) Remarks

1^st application (when___________________________________________________________________)

2^nd application (when___________________________________________________________________)

12. How many days did you spend on applying fertilizer? (PC) ____________

13. How many people help you? (PC) Family________; Hired________

14. If hiring, how much per day per person? (PC) ______________

15. Do you think it is easy to get organic fertilizer in your area? [ ] Yes; [ ] No. Why, and why not?

_______________________________________________________________________

16. What are the serous pests of your rice fields? __________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________________

17. Did you spray pesticide? [ ] Yes; [ ] No

18. How much did you spend for pesticide? (PC) _____________

19. How many days did you spend on spraying pesticide? (PC) ____________

20. How many people help you? (PC) Family________; Hired________

21. If hiring, how much per day per person? (PC) ______________

22. How did you control the rat? ________________________________

23. How much money you spend? (PC) ___________________

24. How did you control the birds? ______________________________

25. How much money you spend? (PC) ___________________

26. How did you control for other pests?__________________________

27. How much you spend? (PC) ______________________

28. How many days did you spend on controlling those pests? (PC) ____________

29. How many people help you? (PC) Family________; Hired________

30. If hiring, how much per day per person? (PC) ______________

31. Did you irrigate your fields? [ ] Yes; [ ] No

32. How many times did you irrigate your fields? (PC) _____________

33. Do you own or rent pumping machine from others? [ ] My own; [ ] Rent 34. If your own, how many litters of fuel you spend for one time? (PC) _________

35. If you rented, how much you spend? (PC) _________________

36. How many days did you spend for irrigating the fields for one time? (PC) _____________

37. How many people help you? (PC) Family________; Hired________

38. If hiring, how much per day per person? (PC) ______________

39. Did you spend on water fee? How much you spend? (PC) _____________

40. How many days per week did you visit your fields? (PC) ______________

41. How many hours did you visit a day? (PC) _____________

42. How did you go to your fields? [ ] Walking; [ ] Bicycle; [ ] Motorbike

43. If by motorbike, how many litters of gasoline did you spend for once? (PC) ______ (Price/L=____)

E. Post-harvest

1. How did you harvest? [ ] by hand; [ ] by machinery 2. Is it your own? [ ] My own; [ ] Rent

3. If your own, how many litters of fuel you spend? (PC) _________

4. If you rented, how much you spend? (PC) _________________

5. How many days did you spend in harvesting? (PC) _____________

6. How many people help you? (PC) Family________; Hired________

7. If hiring, how much per day per person? (PC) ______________

8. Did you immediately transport to your house? [ ] Yes; [ ] No

9. How did you transport to your house? [ ] Bicycle; [ ] Cart; [ ] Tractor; [ ] Truck 10. Is it your own? [ ] My own; [ ] Rent

11. If your own, how many litters of fuel you spend? (PC) _________

12. If you rented, how much you spend? (PC) _________________

13. How many days did you spend on transporting? (PC) ____________

14. How many people help you? (PC) Family________; Hired________

15. If hiring, how much per day per person? (PC) ______________

16. How did you thresh your rice? [ ] Hand; [ ] Machine 17. If by machine, is it your own? [ ] My own; [ ] Rent

18. If your own, how many litters of fuel you spend? (PC) _________

19. If you rented, how much you spend? (PC) _________________

20. How many days did you spend on threshing? (PC) ____________

21. How many people help you? (PC) Family________; Hired________

22. If hiring, how much per day per person? (PC) ______________

23. How did you dry your paddy? [ ] Traditional; [ ] machine 24. If by machine, is it your own? [ ] My own; [ ] Rent

25. If your own, how many litters of fuel you spend? (PC) _________

26. If you rented, how much you spend? (PC) _________________

27. How many days did you spend on drying? (PC) ____________

28. How many people help you? (PC) Family________; Hired________

V. Tools and machineries to be used in production Items (if farmer owned and used it, please

check in the box) ☑ Quantities Unit Price Bought year

How long can it be

used?

-Plough (Traditional) -Harrow (Traditional) -Two-wheel tractor -Tractor

-Tractor equipment:

_________________________

-Bumping machine -Bumping tube -Transplanting tool:

_________________________

-Weeding tool:

_________________________

-Fertilizing tool

_________________________

-Sprayer -Plastic fen

-Other pest controlling tools:

_________________________

-Harvesting tools:

_________________________

-Harvesting machine -Cart

-Truck

-Threshing tools:

_________________________

-Threshing machine -Cleaning tools:

_________________________

-Tarpaulin -Drying machine -Sack

-Storage

VI. Other farm and off farm activities

1. Do you have other farm activities besides rice farming?: [ ] yes=1; [ ] no=0 2. If yes, what are they? (Please list in the table below)

Other farm activities Size Unite Period of doing?

Times per year

Are they in rice field

Income per year Vegetable crops

(1):__________________________

(2):__________________________

(3):Others_____________________

______

Ha Ha Ha

_________

_______

[ ] Y; [ ] N [ ] Y; [ ] N [ ] Y; [ ] N

________

Fruit crops:

(1):__________________________

(2):__________________________

(3):Others_____________________

______

Tree Tree Tree

_________

_______

[ ] Y; [ ] N [ ] Y; [ ] N [ ] Y; [ ] N

________

Animal raising

(1):__________________________

(2):__________________________

(3):Others_____________________

______

Heads Heads Heads

_________

_______

[ ] Y; [ ] N [ ] Y; [ ] N [ ] Y; [ ] N

________

Fisheries

(1):__________________________

(2):__________________________

______

Ha Ha

_________

_______

[ ] Y; [ ] N [ ] Y; [ ] N

________

3. Do you have other job besides farming?: [ ] Yes=1; [ ] No=0 4. Income from off farm activities

Off farm activities How many hours/week When you do it? Income/month 1. _____________ __________________ ____________________ ____________________

2. _____________ __________________ ____________________ ____________________

3. _____________ ___________________ _____________________ ____________________

VII. Market information

1. Where did you sell your paddy rice? [ ] Farm gate; [ ] Market; [ ] Rice miller

2. Who did you sell to? [ ] Consumer; [ ] Middleman; [ ] Rice miller; [ ] NGO; [ ] Cooperative 3. Who set the price? [ ] Middleman; [ ] Rice miller; [ ] NGO; [ ] Cooperative

4. Did you have contract with them? [ ] Yes; [ ] No 5. Have you ever negotiated the price? [ ] Yes; [ ] No

6. Did you know the price in market when you sell it? [ ] Yes; [ ] No

7. How did you know? [ ] Other farmers; [ ] Media; [ ] NGOs; [ ] Cooperative

VIII. Credit facilities

1. Was credit available for purchase of inputs during 2013 season in your village? [ ] yes; [ ] no 2. Have you ever received credit facilities for your faming activities? [ ] yes; [ ] no. If yes, please

complete this table

Source of credit Year Amount Interest rate Purpose Duration Instalment number

Instalment amount

3. Do you have information about all credit sources? [ ] yes; [ ] no

4. Has it ever happened that your application for loan was reject? [ ] yes; [ ] no

5. Please stat the reasons for not using credit in the season?________________________________

6. Did you buy any input on credit during the season? [ ] yes; [ ] no . If yes list the inputs ________

______________________________________________________________________________

7. Did you have any forms of credit/loan facilities from any buyer last season? [ ] yes; [ ] no 8. If yes, did you sell the products to them after harvesting? [ ] yes; [ ] no

IX. Membership of cooperatives/association

1. Are you a member of any farmer organisations? [ ] Yes; [ ] No

2. If yes, what is the name of the organisation and when did you join it? ______________________

______________________________________________________________________________

3. How often do you meet? ___________________

4. Do you attend meetings regularly? [ ] Yes; [ ] No

5. Benefits of the organisation? [ ] information; [ ] marketing help; [ ] credit; [ ] extension service;

[ ] others; please specify_________________________________________

6. Did you know other organizations which help in organic farming? [ ] Yes; [ ] No. What are they?

_______________________________________________________________________

7. Had you ever received any training programs related to organic rice farming? [ ] Yes; [ ] No, if yes how many times?________________

8. Besides organic rice training, did you get other training courses? [ ] Yes; [ ] No

9. How many times did you attend training courses in 2013? ________________________

10. Would you like to receive training course? [ ] Yes; [ ] No

11. Had you ever meet extension workers for discussing about rice production? [ ] Yes; [ ] No 12. How many times did you meet them in 2013? ____________________

13. Where did you meet?________________________

X. Perception of conventional farmers toward organic rice farming 1. Do you know what organic rice is? [ ] Yes; [ ] No

2. How did you get information about organic rice farming?

[ ] Mass media; [ ] Extension agent; [ ] NGOs; [ ] Merchant; [ ] Farmers 3. Did you know some organic farmers? (V024) [ ] Yes; [ ] No

4. Do you know the advantages of organic rice farming? [ ] Yes; [ ] No. If yes, what are they? ____

______________________________________________________________________________

5. Do you want to produce organic rice in the future? Why and why not?______________________

______________________________________________________________________________

6. In what conditions, will you produce organic rice?______________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________

7. In your opinion, do you agree with the advantages of organic rice farming below? (Please rank it)

Advantages Disagree Agree

Improve soil fertility Reduce input cost Environmental benefits Avoid chemicals Health benefits Higher yield Higher price Secure market

Disadvantages Disagree Agree Do not have enough manure

Hard to control insect and disease Hard to control weed

Lack of labor Low yield

Problem with document procedure Problem with price

9. What do you need to improve your rice production? ____________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________

Production costs (Please fill it after interviewing)

Items (unit) Unit Price

(Riel or $)

Quantity (Please specify)

Plot1 Plot2 Plot3 Plot4 All plots - Seed (kg)

- Rental fee (Riel or $) - rice field

- animal (nursery) - tractor (nursery)

- animal (land preparation) - tractor (land preparation) - Pumping machine - Harvesting machine - Transportation - Threshing machine - Drying machine - Fertilizer

- Organic1:___________________

- Organic2:___________________

- Organic3:___________________

- Organic4:___________________

- Pesticide

- Organic1:___________________

- Organic2:___________________

- Organic3:___________________

- Fuel

- Nursery preparation - Flooding nursery - Land preparation - Flooding the fields - Visiting the fields - Harvesting - Transportation - Threshing - Drying - Water fee - Labor (man/day) - Nursery preparation