Title Page
ABSTRACT
Contents
LIST OF ACRONYMS 11
CHAPTER ONE 12
1. INTRODUCTION 12
1.1. Adoption 15
1.2. Statement of the problem 16
1.3. Justification of the study 17
1.4. Goals 17
1.5. Objectives 17
1.6. Research Questions 18
CHAPTER TWO 19
2. LITERATURE REVIEW 19
2.1. Community development 19
2.2. The Saemaul Undong Model 19
2.3. The Malawi scenario 20
2.4. Women empowerment 20
2.5. Mushroom production 24
2.6. Cultivation method 24
2.7. Constraints in Mushroom production 30
CHAPTER THREE 33
3. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 33
3.1. Study area 33
3.2. Data Collection 34
3.3. Sampling 35
3.4. Questionnaire administration 37
CHAPTER FOUR 38
4. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 38
4.1. Demographic analysis 38
4.2. Constraints analysis 41
4.3. Opportunities in Mushroom production 50
CHAPTER FIVE 54
5. RECOMMENDATION AND CONCLUSION 54
5.1. RECOMMENDATIONS 54
5.2. CONCLUSION 59
REFERENCES 61
APPENDIX 64
1.0. SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRE FOR AN ANALYSIS TO CONSTRAINTS AMONG RURAL WOMEN IN MUSHROOM PRODUCTION, KASUNGU-MALAWI 64
2.0. QUESTIONNAIRE (MUSHROOM FARMERS) 65
초록 69
Table 1. Analysis of Variance ANOVA 43
Table 2. Post Hoc test 44
Table 3. Distribution of respondents against trainers 48
Figure 1. The Five Processes of innovation adoption 15
Figure 2. Oyster Mushroom Seeds in Sterilized Bottles 25
Figure 3. Mushroom Planting Model 27
Figure 4. Colonized Mushroom bag 28
Figure 5. Fruiting Stages of Mushroom 29
Figure 6. Map of Kasungu (EPA Boundaries) 33
Figure 7. Gender Computation (Blue: Male, Green: Female) 38
Figure 8. Distribution of Education level (Mean=1.14, Standard... 39
Figure 9. Income Analysis bar Graph 40
Figure 10. Distribution of Age range 41
Figure 11. Distribution of years in mushroom production (Mean=1.47,... 49
Figure 12. Nutritional comparison 52
Figure 13. Tissue cutting 55
Figure 14. Spawn production using popcorn seeds 56
Figure 15. Mushroom seeds 57