Environmental Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
Table 12.1 Questionnaire for survey of home gardens
VILLAGE:
Name............ DATE............ Compound No. ........... Population..............
PLANT USE:
Medicinal (M)
Food (F);
Fibre (B);
Dye/food colour (D); Other...
A. Spatial and socio-economic
B. Name and use of plants including crops
situation
(name/list according to dominance)
1. Location of compound
(a) Outskirts
(b) Central
Food crops
2. Home garden owner
1.......................
11...................................
(a) Name............ (b) Gender...............
2.......................
12...................................
3. Principal operational/caretaker
3.......................
13...................................
(a) Name............ (b) Gender..............
4.......................
14...................................
4. Pacer's name:
5.......................
15...................................
5. Size of garden (no. of paces around
6.......................
16...................................
perimeter)...............................
7.......................
17....................................
6. Borders of garden
8.......................
18....................................
(a) Fenced
(b) Hedged
(c) Open
9.......................
19....................................
10......................
20...................................
7. Site and yield characteristics (tick)
Comments
a) Refuse dump ...........
b) Soils
Rich......... Moderate..........
Poor......
c) Yield
High......... Moderate.........
Low.......
progression by a time-saving systematic sampling procedure according to the
three principal operational sectors of the demonstration site, namely:
•
Bormase Whernya/Ternya, Bormase Dorse, and Siblinor in the eastern sector
•
Sekesua and Dawa-Agbom in the central sector
•
Prekumase, Osonson-Korlenya, Osonson-Yite, and Osonson-Sisi in the western
sector (Map D).
This approach had the added merit of ensuring a reasonable spatial spread of the
sample.
Subsequently, local farmer-assistants drawn mostly from the leadership of the
PLEC farmers' association were assigned to determine the total numbers of settle-
ments, of longitudinal landholdings, and of those holdings containing compound
houses, to serve as a basis for determining appropriate sample size and interval for
each of the sectors. After this, the survey proceeded along the principal road from
one end of a settlement towards the other end, at an appropriate sample interval,
according to a staggered or a straightforward systematic formation, depending
upon whether or not compound houses were located at either side of the road.
