Chapter 1 Final
Chapter 1 Final
Introduction
The papaya plant is one of the many crops cultivated in agriculture in the
Philippines. The papaya plant is very easy to grow and almost spread throughout
the territory of country. However, the general public is still lacking in utilizing the
papaya plant (Rhamadi 2015). The community only uses fruits from the papaya
plant for consumption. In fact, the papaya plant has been a very important role in
everyday life.
The papaya plant is belonging plant to the family Caricaceae (Amran et al.
2018, Patil et al. 2014), that rich source of three powerful antioxidant vitamins (C,
A and E); the minerals (magnesium and potassium), the B vitamin, pantothenic
acid, foliate and fibers (Girish and Prabhavathi 2019, Milind and Gurditta 2011).
Furthermore, it's can also be used to control plant pest organisms. This is
because the chemical content found in the leaves are effective for controlling
pests.
In agriculture, farmers still use fewer plant pesticides and use synthetic
pesticides more often to pests' control. The use of synthetic pesticides for a long
time will be very dangerous for humans and other organisms (Astuti and
Widyastuti 2016). Therefore, there need to be other alternatives in controlling
pests that are environmentally friendly and not toxic to other organisms by using
vegetable pesticides. Vegetable pesticides have several advantages such as
environmentally friendly, inexpensive and easily available, do not poison plants,
do not cause pest resistance, and contain nutrients needed by plants, and
produce agricultural products that are free of synthetic pesticide residues (Irfan
2016).
Effective pest control for farms and agricultural premises is essential. Pest
species are cause for major concern, not only due to the potential loss of revenue
due to crop damage but also, if left untreated, they can also cause significant
damage to machinery, equipment, and property as well (Safeguard Pest Control,
2019). Crop damage is one of the problems that most of the farmers and other
agricultural in lined people sometimes complained when they are working and
planting their crops and other agricultural sectors. Pest like insects are a big
threat in the agricultural sector. They are responsible for two kinds of damage to
growing crops; (1) The direct injury to plants caused by insects eating leaves and
burrowing holes in stems, fruit and/or roots. (2) The indirect damage, where the
insects themselves do little no harm, but transmit bacterial, viral or fungal
infection to a crop (Safeguard Pest Control, 2019). Pest insects can have
adverse and damaging impacts on agricultural production and market access, the
natural environment, and our lifestyle. Pest insects may cause problems by
damaging crops and food production, parasitizing livestock, or being a nuisance
and health hazard to humans.
This study aims to determine the efficacy and effectiveness of papaya leaf
extract as an insect repellent to the people who are in line with agricultural
sectors. Specifically, this study attempts to answer the following questions:
1. What is the chemical content of the leaves of papaya that can be used
as an alternative pesticide?
2. What solution is more effective?
2.1 pure papaya leaf extract; or
2.2 papaya leaf extract mixed with 5mL of water?
3. What is the significant difference between the extract of the papaya
leaves as natural pesticide and the synthetic pesticides?
Hypothesis
The hypothesis will be raised in the study and will test the level of
significance of the effectiveness of Papaya Leaf Extract as an alternative
pesticide.
HO1: The researchers hypothesize that the Papaya leaf extract has no
significant effect as an alternative pesticide to prevent unwanted pests on crops
and plants. (NULL HYPOTHESIS).
The general intent of this study is to determine and measure the ability of
the papaya leaf extract as an alternative pesticide. This study will give new
knowledge and would help farmers and other agricultural in line people to
minimize and prevent unwanted pests that can damage their place of business,
recreation and living.
Due to the impossibility of having all pest insects to be tested, this study
limits the coverage to four types of pest insects namely; (1) Flea Beetles, (2)
Caterpillars, and (3) leafhoppers and planthoppers, and (4) stem borers that has
a possibility to harm plants, crops, and other agricultural sectors. Furthermore,
this study limits to only two kinds of agricultural sectors namely; (1) vegetables
like eggplant, tomato, etc. and (2) crops like rice, camote crops, etc. In addition,
this study will be conducted in a span of 3 to 5 months to clearly see what
progress is made.
The possible findings of this study may provide deeper awareness, proper
understanding and help in preventing and minimizing pests that would harm
agricultural sectors. The result of this study will be great benefit to the following:
TO THE FARMERS. The result of this study will help the farmers to have an
affordable and at the same time effective insect repellent and pesticides that
would lessen or prevent pests to come closer in their plants and crops.
Furthermore, this study may help increased profits for farmers as an incentive to
all the efforts and sacrifices they have exerted.
TO THE SOCIETY. The result of this study will help the society by means of
consuming fresh and healthy foods that can give them good benefits for their
body as well as the prevention of diseases.
TO THE ECONOMY. The result of this study will help the economy to have an
affordable alternative insect repellent and pesticides in dealing unwanted pests in
the agricultural sectors. Most importantly, this study will help them increased food
production more than enough to supply the needs of the economy.
TO THE FUTURE RESEARCHERS. The result of this study will help the future
researchers as this will serve as their reference to their study and add more
knowledge about how natural resources like papaya leaf can be a way to have an
affordable yet effective pesticides. They would benefit in this study because they
would have an idea on what to research and seek answers from.
Chapter 2
Saputra (2011) revealed that several types of pests that often attack green
mustard plants include cabbage crop caterpillars (Crocidolomia binotalis zell),
tritip caterpillars (Plutella maculipennis), armyworm caterpillars (Spodoptera sp),
soil caterpillars (Agrotis ipsilon), caterpillar (Tepha javanica) and snails
(Agrolimax sp). These types of pests are one of the main obstacles to increasing
the production of green mustard both in quality and quantity. In order for green
mustard production to continue to increase, it is necessary to do research using
papaya leaf extract as a vegetable pesticide in pests controlling that attack green
mustard plants.
The study above relates to the ongoing capstone project because the aim
of this study is to make an alternative pesticide that will help not only the farmers
or agricultural in-lined people but also the community to control target pest
without altering ecological balance. This study also considers the health impacts,
market trend, and future prospects considering technical advances and
regulatory requirements for the good of the community.
Conceptual Framework
Methodology
Research Design
The researchers will utilize and use the experimental research design,
specifically the quasi-experimental research design, the one-group pretest-
posttest design. According to Allen (2017), one-group pretest-posttest design is a
type of quasi-experimental design that is most often utilized by behavioral
researchers to determine the effectiveness of a treatment or intervention on a
given sample.
Materials
This study will conduct an output that will help the farmers and other
agricultural in lined people to have a pesticide which is convenient in their field
and affordable in their expected cost. The materials need for this study are the
following:
MATERIALS FIGURES
1. Papaya Leaves
2. Water (H2O)
3. Spray bottles
4. Squeezer/Extractor
6. Containers (Bottles)
Procedure
Statistical Treatment
This study will use the descriptive statistics analysis to quantify the
effectiveness of papaya leaf extract as an alternative insect repellent and
pesticides collected from the observation in the agricultural sectors. Descriptive
statistics are brief descriptive coefficients that summarize a give data set (Kenton,
2019). Meanwhile, the statistical tools that will be utilized in the study is:
T-test. This statistical tool will be used to determine the means of two sets of
data are significantly different from each other.
Analysis of variance (ANOVA). This statistical tool will be used to provide a
statistical test of whether two or more population means are equal, and therefore
generalizes the t-test beyond two means.
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