Quality inspection is usually done by the owner or other member of the family designated also as supervisor. All producers have their own quality inspection of the final output. They do not have fire extinguishers in the production area considering that the dried tiger grass as the main raw materials is flammable though all of them prohibit smoking in the area. Majority of the producers do not have adequate safety and security measures. Indicating that producers split their production processes into various people. Furthermore, the production is decentralized in 98% of the producers. Based on the result of the study, the producers can produce 31-60 pieces during peak season and 1-15 pieced per day during normal or off-season. As to the procurement of the raw materials, 86% of the producers took their main raw materials within the municipality and some other supplies for production. Surprisingly, all producers are using their own houses only as the place for production meaning no producer invested in a separate area or building for production. There are various simple tools in the production such as clap or locally called “pang-ipit”. There were no advanced equipment that use electricity and computer in operation. As to the production process, it was identified that the product of all producers are purely manual. All broom reed enterprises are classified as micro enterprises having an asset of less than Php 3,000,000 and having employees of not more than 10.
Moreover, majority of their enterprises are single proprietorship and operating for more than 11 years. Majority of the producers are 41-50 years of age, male, married and elementary graduate only. Structured questionnaire was prepared and served as the main instrument of the study facilitated by an interview of the researchers. There were 58 participants in the study who are the broom producers in the locality. Conducted in municipality of San Antonio province of Nueva Ecija, Philippines.
This study utilized the descriptive method of research.
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