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Chapter Iii Draft 4
Chapter Iii Draft 4
METHODOLOGY
This chapter contains the research design, locale of the study, materials and procedure,
treatments.
Research design
This study would aim to determine the effectiveness of rice hull and saw dust in
prolonging the shelf life of tomato. It will determine how well the materials perform based on the
visual quality rating, color index, chilling injury, color quality rating, shriveling index, firmness
index and percent rotting of the fruits. The researchers will seek to know how different the
tomatoes depending on the kind of treatment used. The researchers will use three kinds of
treatments of tomato to investigate. The effectiveness of rice hull and saw dust in prolonging the
This study will use the quantitative research specifically, experimental research design
along with four (4) treatments that has four (4) replicates each, respectively. One (1) replicate
from each treatment will be use as a spare in a case of certain circumstances. The replicates were
The locale of this study is at General Artemio Ricarte Senior High School at #35 Bil-loca,
Materials. Rice hull, saw dust, paper box and tomato fruit Ilocos red and Diamante max
are the materials. Rice hull will be gathered at #33-S Rayuray while the researchers will gather
sawdust at Bacnat’s Furniture Shop at #35 Bil-loca also with the paper box. They will obtain the
tomato fruit Diamante max and Ilocos Red at #30-W Baoa west and #30-E Baoa east, City of
Batac.
Affordability of the materials used in this study shown below.
Procedures. The following steps in obtaining the needed data for the study were adapted
Preparation for the materials. The researchers prepared two tomato varieties with four
treatments with four replicates of treatment 1 to treatment three while one replicate for treatment
4 which is the control. Treatment one (1) were pure rice hull, treatment two (2) were pure
sawdust, treatment three (3) were the combination of rice hull and sawdust and treatment (4)
Preparation of treatments. The materials (saw dust or rice hull and tomato) will be
putted inside a paper box alternately. Thirty (30) tomato fruits will be placed on each boxes.
Gathering of Data. In ten (10) weeks, the twenty-four (26) replicates will be observed
once a week in terms of visual quality rating, color index, chilling injury, color quality rating,
shriveling index, firmness index and percent rotting of the fruits. On week five (5), three
replicates will be gathered, while one replicate will remain for further observation on how long
the tomatoes will rot. The data gathering procedure were adapted from Tagala (2001) and Lyson
Visual quality rating. The visual quality rating was evaluated once a week using the
following index.
2 - limit of edibility
1 - non-edible, fully deterioration
Chilling injury. It is a physiological disorder that occurs in fruits and vegetables and is
5 - no visible symptoms
Color quality rating. This was taken when the fruit reached chilling injury (Cl) 5. The
1 - green
4 - orange
6 - light red
7 - deep red
Shriveling index. Shriveling index of the fruits was ranked by appearance once a week
5 - no shriveling
Firmness index. Firmness index was determined once a week. In each treatment, two
fruits of each replication were randomly selected and used as sample. After determining
the firmness index, the fruits were returned back to their respective treatments.
5 - very hard
4 - moderately hard
3 - intermediate
2 - slightly soft
1 - very soft
Percent rotting. This was taken when sign of rotting was observed. Rotten fruits were
discarded after getting the data. It was computed using the formula:
Treatment of Data
Three treatments were used in determining the effectiveness of rice hull and saw dust in
Treatment Formula
1 Pure rice hull
The mean will be used to test the effectiveness of rice hull and saw dust in prolonging the