Acceptability Assessment of a Locally Developed Onion Harvester Hand Tractor in La Union, Philippines

Onion farmers’ attitude toward a locally developed onion harvester in the Philippines has been unstudied due to unavailability of machine. Based on respondent 26 farmers, an acceptability assessment was implemented. Data were gathered using questionnaires at two activities actual hands-on operation and lectures analyzed fisher’s exact test. The ease operation, cleaning maintenance, safety transport, technical field performance, adaptability, investment viability relevant attributes used harvester. majority respondents positively accept user are correlated willingness buy or rent Conversely, safety, aesthetics not with adoption. Since 38.5% farmers have no hand tractor, preferred acquisition is renting