COMMUNITY EXTENSION PROGRAM/

PROJECT PROPOSAL
I. IDENTIFYING INFORMATION

Title (Option 1) : Distribution of Seed for Crop Production of the

Community
Type of project : Outreach Program
Program : BTLE Program
Project Leader : Sherina Ann Flores
Members/Trainers : Joyce Anne Lamboloto
Jayson Kennedy David
Lalaine Miranda
Hazel Kate Solis
Implementing College / Department : Institute of BTLE Program
BPSU OC Extension and Training Services
Collaborating Organizations : BTLE COSG
Beneficiaries : Community (Children, Parents and Seniors)
Number of Male Beneficiaries: 10
Number of Female Beneficiaries: 10
Duration / Inclusive Dates : June 10 - July 10, 2022
Location : Bayan, Orani, Bataan
Budget : Php 500.00
Source of Fund : Selling of recycled materials

II. RATIONALE

Pre-project Situation

In this project proposal we are going to addressed the problems regarding malnutrition,
poverty, nutritional problems, environmental issues and poor planting abilities. We aim to
spread awareness and knowledge to the community about the said problems with the
goal to help and assist them in the way that we can.

Expected Situation at the end of the Project

At the end of the Project, we expect our plan to go as we plan. We would like to achieve our
main objectives and for our project to be successful. We made this project with the intention
to help the community in a way that we could gave awareness, knowledge about the
problems that we are going to addressed regarding are project as well as accomplishing our
expected outputs such as contributing a range of environmental, psychological, physiological
and social outcomes associated with their home gardening experiences. We are also
expecting to spreading awareness of the importance of eating vegetables for good health,
creating a possible leisure activity to the chosen beneficiaries to lessen their stress, improving
the lifestyle of the chosen beneficiaries and their families, generating a healthy environment
of the chosen beneficiaries and their families, providing a possible source of income to the
chosen beneficiaries and their families and lastly we hope to provide a possible profitable
eggplant garden to the chosen beneficiaries and their families.

Target Beneficiaries

Target beneficiaries are the community such as the children, parents and seniors and the
methods for determining target areas and beneficiary households differed among countries
and regions, but some general criteria can be identified that helped in the decision-making
process. Efforts were also made, wherever possible, to target vulnerable households.
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES

Related Literature

Gardening is a physical activity and the range of garden tasks that use the upper and lower
body such as digging, turning compost, raking offer moderate intensity physical activity
whilst other tasks that use primarily the upper body in standing or squatting postures such
as hand weeding, mixing soil sowing and transplanting seedlings offering low intensity
physical (Park et al., 2008). Calorie calculators from various sources provide estimates of
calorie expenditure for different gardening activities, indicating that garden work burns
around 250 – 500 calories per hour, depending on the level intensity of the activity (Boots
diet, 2013; Calories per hour, 2013).

In one study Herman et al. (2006) showed that children involved in afterschool gardening
programmes self-reported a significant increase in physical activity levels. Harris et al. (2009)
report on a meta-analysis showing that encouraging physical activity in schools was only
partially successful in improving children’s health and unlikely to reduce obesity in itself and
concluded that gardening needs to be part of a more concerted programme of physical
activity to encourage children to be more active. The physical tasks of food growing, such as
digging and weeding, contributed to a broader understanding of the range of way of staying
active and teachers report that children and young people take greater responsibility for their
own health (RHS, 2010).

In summary, Zick et al. (2013) concluded that “health benefits of community gardening may
go beyond enhancing the gardeners’ intake of fruit and veg. Community gardens may be a
valuable element of land use diversity that merits consideration by public health officials
who want to identify neighbourhood features that promote health”.

Related Studies

In the thematic analysis of the recent study of Raymond et al. (2018), revealed that study
participants self-reported a range of environmental, psychological, physiological and social
outcomes associated with their home gardening experiences. Despite home gardening often
being a solitary activity, most gardeners valued the multiple forms of social interaction that
occurred during important social events in their garden, or when connecting with passers-by.

Home gardeners also cited benefits related to connection to nature and place attachment;
attention restoration; reduced stress and anxiety; improved mood; satisfaction and pride;
increased self-esteem and courage to do things differently in life; and, important education or
learning opportunities.

According to Beyer et al. (2014), higher levels of neighborhood green space correspond to
better mental health outcomes, when controlling for a wide range of confounding factors.
The associations between green space and mental health are significant and sizeable and
persist with different measurement techniques. Furthermore, the estimated effect of
environmental green space is similar in magnitude to that of other well-known and studied
contributors to symptomology for depression, anxiety and stress. In their study, it appears
that younger adults may currently experience greater need to receive the mental health
benefits conferred by greener environments. Another important contribution of their study is
the examination of neighborhood environmental factors other than green space. The
correlation between higher unemployment levels and greater anxiety and stress and the
correlation between higher levels of residential segregation and increased anxiety, stress, and
depression support the need for research on “greening” and other neighborhood strategies to
counteract spatial aspects of socioeconomic disadvantage. Their finding of higher levels of
depression among rural populations highlights potential benefits of environmental green
spaces for diverse populations and motivates the expansion of green space research to non-
urban environments, as well as the examination of benefits by socio-demographic and
economic characteristics of residents.
 Lachowycz and Jones (2011) states that Greenspace is theoretically a valuable resource for
physical activity and hence has potential to contribute to reducing obesity and improving
health. The rise in obesity is well documented and research has recently expanded from a
focus on individual determinants of obesity to investigating upstream influences, including
how the environment in which people live influences their lifestyle and weight gain. Such
socio‐ecological approaches consider how individuals interact with their environments. One
potentially important factor in a person's living environment is their access to greenspace.
Sixty studies met the inclusion criteria and were assessed for methodological quality and
strength of the evidence.

The majority (68%) of papers found a positive or weak association between greenspace and
obesity related health indicators, but findings were inconsistent and ‐ mixed across studies.
Several studies found the relationship varied by factors such as age, socioeconomic status
and greenspace measure.

According to Sevik et al. (2017), plants help reduce the CO2 amount in the light environment
at different levels. Their study aimed at determining the effect of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the
internal environment of different indoor plants. Spathiphyllum (Spathiphyllum floribundum
Schott), Yucca (Yucca elephantipes Regel), Dieffenbachia (Dieffenbachia amoena Gentil), and
Ficus (Ficus benjamina L.) are frequently used in studies of indoor plants that examine light
temperature depending on leaf surface and the effects of CO2 in the studied environment.
Ficus is the plant that reduces the CO2 amount in the environment the fastest. Therefore,
Ficus is the most suitable species to be used in reducing indoor CO2 amount, among the
species included in the study.

In study conducted by Hort et al. (2012), in a time when industrialization and urbanization
rates reach even higher, and lack of green spaces is becoming more acute, it appears the issue
of air quality both inside and outside. Plants are one of the best methods to improve indoor
air quality, due to their capacity of absorbing toxins and carbon dioxide and to regulate the
humidity level. In addition, researchers have proved that houseplants influence the human
activity by reducing stress and stimulating the creative activity.

Project Components

The project components of our project proposal are to distribute eggplant seeds and to provide a
proper training seminar on planting vegetables and its importance to our chosen beneficiaries.
After we completed our project proposal, we are determined to create the corresponding outputs
such as:

Corresponding Outputs

 Contributing a range of environmental, psychological, physiological and social

outcomes associated with their home gardening experiences.
 Spreading awareness of the importance of eating vegetables for good health.
 Creating a possible leisure activity to the chosen beneficiaries to lessen their stress.
 Improving the lifestyle of the chosen beneficiaries and their families.
 Generating a healthy environment of the chosen beneficiaries and their families.
 Providing a possible source of income to the chosen beneficiaries and their families.
 Providing a possible profitable eggplant garden to the chosen beneficiaries and their
families.
 Procedure

Our group are going to collect funds through selling recycled materials like plastic bottles, and
carton papers, etc. Then we are going to buy eggplant seeds to distribute and we are also
going to provide a proper training seminar on planting vegetables and explain its importance
to our chosen beneficiaries. After that we are going to do a follow up checking to see the
effects and aftermath of our project proposal to the beneficiaries.

III. OBJECTIVES
A. General objective:
The researchers come up with this kind of project to promote the importance of having a small
agricultural vegetables farm within the barangay to help everyone especially those children who
are suffering in malnutrition cause of the increasing number of teenage pregnancy and out-of-
school youth who are still attached and asking for the support from their parents. In this case,
lack of financial support and also sources of food are relevant so the tendency of malnutrition is
getting high. We decided to build this project to help the community through the benefits of
having a mini farm in our home and in the community. As a future educator, we can able to
teach youngsters inside the schools and adult through gathering them in seminars and training
sessions for them to know how to plants vegetables in a simple and right way. And also, the
importance and benefits of planting crops are included in the seminars and training sessions. We,
the researchers and this project will stand to help and to change our place into a healthy and
better community.

B. Specific objectives:

An immediate objective stating what the project itself is expected to achieve. It should be
defined in terms of specific change in status or condition which the project is intended to bring
about. It must in turn contribute to the achievement of a large development objective. In
thinking about immediate objectives, a useful first step may be to consider whether the
assistance is intended to reach its target beneficiaries directly or indirectly.) Care must be
taken to stated objectives which are realistic, in the sense that they fall within the range of
results which reasonably may be expected to achieve the limits of time, money and human
resources of the project. They must also be stated to some possible terms which allow
measurement since their achievement is the basis on which the success or failure of the project
is to be judged.
IV. EXPECTED OUTPUTS:

Distribution of seeds and learn how to plant it through seminars, demonstration and tutorials gives a
big impact to the community. We, researchers and future educators will ensure that this project that
focus in the community will be successful. The seeds that being planted will grow properly and bear
with healthy vegetables that can be harvest by people in the community. They can be able to sell
those vegetables as source of their income or it can be their sources of foods in their everyday life so
that, there will a possibility of getting a low risk of having children who are experiencing
malnutrition and families who experience a shortage in terms of food.

V. PROJECT COMPONENTS/DESCRIPTIONS:

A. Community Analysis: study of some issues, trends, problems experience by your community

that can be used as a basis for the conduct of the project (Include RRL and RRS)

B. Problem Analysis:

C. Importance of having a agricultural vegetables farm in our community and fo

having a healthy community to have a good impact to those people who live in

the community to improve their healthy living and have a big positive impact in

our environment and to the community environment and to improve their

agricultural skill and to multiple strategies are required to address the issue of

food production and food securityc. The choice of feasible approaches hinges on

the existing social, political, and economic conditions and resources available to

design and implement the intervention. Home gardens are a time-tested local

strategy that are widely adopted and practiced in various circumstances by local

communities with limited resources and institutional support.

Related Literature

"It is evident from the literature that home gardens are a part of the agriculture and food

production systems in many developing countries and are widely used as a remedy to

alleviate hunger and malnutrition in the face of a global food crisis. Globally, home

gardens have been documented as an important supplemental source contributing to food

and nutritional security and livelihoods. 'Food production on small plots adjacent to

human settlements is the oldest and most enduring form of cultivation'. For centuries,

home gardens have been an integral component of family farming and local food systems.

Home gardening is an ancient and widespread practice all over the world. In the

literature, home gardens are classified as mixed, kitchen, backyard, farmyard, compound

or homestead garden."
https://agricultureandfoodsecurity.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/2048-7010-2-8

Related Studies

Home gardening provides vegetables exclusively for family use. About one-fourth of an

acre (one-tenth of a hectare) of land is required to supply a family of six. The most suitable

vegetables are those producing a large yield per unit of area. Bean, cabbage, carrot, leek,

lettuce, onion, parsley, pea, pepper, radish, spinach, and tomato are desirable home

garden crops.

Market gardening produces assorted vegetables for a local market. The development of

good roads and of motor trucks has rapidly extended available markets; the market

gardener, no longer forced to confine his operations to his local market, often is able to

specialize in the production of a few, rather than an assortment, of vegetables; a

transformation that provides the basis for a distinction between market and truck

gardening in the mid-20th century. Truck gardens produce specific vegetables in

relatively large quantities for distant markets.

In the method known as forcing, vegetables are produced out of their normal season of

outdoor production under forcing structures that admit light and induce favourable

environmental conditions for plant growth. Greenhouses, cold frames, and hotbeds are

common structures used. Hydroponics, sometimes called soilless culture, allows the

grower to practice automatic watering and fertilizing, thus reducing the cost of labour. To

successfully compete with other fresh market producers, greenhouse vegetable growers

must either produce crops when the outdoor supply is limited or produce quality

products commanding premium prices.

Related Studies

Home gardening provides vegetables exclusively for family use. About one-fourth of an

acre (one-tenth of a hectare) of land is required to supply a family of six. The most suitable

vegetables are those producing a large yield per unit of area. Bean, cabbage, carrot, leek,

lettuce, onion, parsley, pea, pepper, radish, spinach, and tomato are desirable home

garden crops.
Market gardening produces assorted vegetables for a local market. The development of

good roads and of motor trucks has rapidly extended available markets; the market

gardener, no longer forced to confine his operations to his local market, often is able to

specialize in the production of a few, rather than an assortment, of vegetables; a

transformation that provides the basis for a distinction between market and truck

gardening in the mid-20th century. Truck gardens produce specific vegetables in

relatively large quantities for distant markets.

In the method known as forcing, vegetables are produced out of their normal season of

outdoor production under forcing structures that admit light and induce favourable

environmental conditions for plant growth. Greenhouses, cold frames, and hotbeds are

common structures used. Hydroponics, sometimes called soilless culture, allows the

grower to practice automatic watering and fertilizing, thus reducing the cost of labour. To

successfully compete with other fresh market producers, greenhouse vegetable growers

must either produce crops when the outdoor supply is limited or produce quality

products commanding premium prices.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/vegetable-farming

D. Description of the Target Group:

The target group of this project are the families in the community including parents, senior

citizens, youths, and children. This project will benefit all and will fits to everyone no matter what

their status in the community, gender, sex and age.

E. Partnership: COSG

VI. TECHNICAL ASPECTS

A. Conceptual/ Theoretical Framework:

INPUT PROCESS OUTPUT

Figure 1. Paradigm of the Project

B. Methodology:
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES

Related Literature

Gardening offers numerous benefits that are often overlooked in a time were convenience,
instant gratification, and ease of accessibility tends to be the valued habit or mindset.
Gardening also increases creativity and inspiration; positively improves participants’ mental
well-being, establishes trust and close connections, and increases cultural awareness; helps
create a sense of home, cultural identity, and belonging; and provides a safe, encouraging
place to acquire new knowledge while learning more about gardening. (Eng et al., 2019).

Through home gardening women have developed proficiency related to plants and garden
practices that help them become better home and environment managers. Their labor is
indispensable to maintain the garden and to help keep production cost low. As home
managers, women have useful knowledge of numerous domestic needs. By their
involvement in the production process, they are able to meet family needs more easily and
economically. (Galhena et al., 2013)

Related Studies

According to Sevik et al. (2017), plants help reduce the CO2 amount in the light environment
at different levels. Their study aimed at determining the effect of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the
internal environment of different indoor plants. Spathiphyllum (Spathiphyllum floribundum
Schott), Yucca (Yucca elephantipes Regel), Dieffenbachia ( Dieffenbachia amoena Gentil), and
Ficus ( Ficus benjamina L.) are frequently used in studies of indoor plants that examine light
temperature depending on leaf surface and the effects of CO2 in the studied environment.
Ficus is the plant that reduces the CO2 amount in the environment the fastest. Therefore,
Ficus is the most suitable species to be used in reducing indoor CO2 amount, among the
species included in the study.

In study conducted by Hort et al. (2012), in a time when industrialization and urbanization
rates reach even higher, and lack of green spaces is becoming more acute, it appears the issue
of air quality both inside and outside. Plants are one of the best methods to improve indoor
air quality, due to their capacity of absorbing toxins and carbon dioxide and to regulate the
humidity level. In addition, researchers have proved that houseplants influence the human
activity by reducing stress and stimulating the creative activity.

Project Components

The project components of our project proposal are to distribute eggplant seeds and to provide a
proper training seminar on planting vegetables and its importance to our chosen beneficiaries.
After we completed our project proposal, we are determined to create the corresponding outputs
such as:

Corresponding Outputs

 Contributing a range of environmental, psychological, physiological and social

outcomes associated with their home gardening experiences.
 Spreading awareness of the importance of eating vegetables for good health.
 Creating a possible leisure activity to the chosen beneficiaries to lessen their stress.
 Improving the lifestyle of the chosen beneficiaries and their families.
 Generating a healthy environment of the chosen beneficiaries and their families.
 Providing a possible source of income to the chosen beneficiaries and their families.
 Providing a possible profitable eggplant garden to the chosen beneficiaries and their
families.
VII. MONITORING AND EVALUATION PLAN

VIII. ACTIVITIES

INPUTS ACTIVITIES OUTPUTS EFFECTS OUTCOMES IMPACT SOCIETAL

GOALS
Resource Coordination, Shared Increased Increased level Increased Improved
Speaker sending of expertise to knowledge of financial savings in financial
communication the on financial management the bank capability of
attendees/ literacy the
skill
participants community
members

IX. WORK AND FINANCIAL PLAN

Interventions
Time Responsible
Activities Strategies if problem/s Budget Needed
occurred Frame Persons
Seminar/Training Teaching them the Giving them a June 10- June 10 Project Leader and None ( Free seminar
(Importance if having a effects of having a assurance that all (One day seminar) Members for all)
planted vegatables in our small agricultural of topic in the
home) vegetables farm in their seminar is
house. helpful.
Seminar/Training Giving them a live Giving them June 15- june 15 Project Leader and None ( free seminar
( Right way of planting sample of tge right way some required ( One day seminar) Members Training for all)
vegetables like egg plant of planting the tips on how to
and okra and others.) Vegetables and giving make the
them tips Vegetables
healthy
Actual demonstration of Actual demonstration Giving them a June 16- July 10 Project Leader and ₱430 for the material
right way of planting the of planting the seeds to clearly (Planting the seed Members like the water
seeds them to follow the steps explanation and and monitoring) sprinkler and the
by steps procedure clear seeds.
demonstration

A. General Breakdown of the Budgetary Requirements

Item no. Particulars Qty Unit Cost/unit Total cost
1 Water Sprinkler 3 ₱80 ₱380 ₱380
2 Vegatables Seeds (Talong) 20 ₱5 ₱25 ₱25
3 Okra 20 ₱5 ₱25 ₱25
Sub-Total ₱430

X. REFERENCES

https://www.rasmussen.edu/degrees/education/blog/gardening-for-kids-benefits/
http://www.farmtocafeteriacanada.ca/wpcontent/uploads/2014/06/GrowingHealth_BenefitsR
eport.pdf
https://www.sustainweb.org/resources/files/reports/HealthyWeight_Factsheet.pdf
https://www.studocu.com/ph/document/quezon-national-high-school/social-psychology/rrl-
rrs-examples-of-rrl-and-rrs/16218522

Submitted by: Sherina Ann M. Flores

Project Co-Proponent/ Members:

HAZEL KATE SOLIS May 28, 2022

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JAYSON KENNEDY B. DAVID May 28, 2022

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JOYCE ANNE LAMBOLOTO May 28, 2022

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LALAINE NENITA S. MIRANDA May 28, 2022

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