Table II. The distribution of the respondents according to farm size there are 34 percent
Who have less than 1 hectar of land; 46 percent for 23 hectares; 10 percent for 35
Hectares, 6 percent for 4 hectares and 4 percent for 5 hectares above. Planting
Distance there are 6 percent of the respondents who used the 2m x 2m planting
Distance; 60 percent of the used 3m x 3m; 24 percent used 4m x 4m; 10 percent used
5m x 5m planting distance for Cavendish. And farming system there are 82 percent
Engage in cropping system and 18 percent engage in intercropping system

Discussion

The (50) fifty respondents reveal that majority of them have hectares of lot in size and
Monocropped with Cavendish in the plain and of the third district of Davao City at a
Planting distance of 3m x 3m.

Production Practices

Table III. The production practices of Cavendish banana farmers covered land
Preparation, insect control, disease control, weed control, fertilizer application.

VARIABLES | F | P | Land preparationsPlainRollingHillyTotal | 408250 | 80164100 | Insects ControlNaturalSyntheticTotal | 44650 | 892100 | Diseases ControlChemicalBio-controlTotal | 4195094150 | 8218100 | Weed ControlBio- controlSyntheticTotal | | 1882100 | FertilizerNaturalSyntheticTotal | 203050 | 4060100 |

As shown for land preparation, all the so Cavendish banana farmers used hand as a
Tools in preparing their land, 80 percent for plain; 16 percent for rolling and 2 percent
For hilly. Insect control 8 percent use natural and 82 percent use synthetic and for
Fertilizer 20 percent used natural and 30 percent for synthetic

Discussion

The production practices of (50) fifty respondent in land preparation majority of them
Preparing their land in plain, 92 percent use synthetic for insect control. For disease
Control 9-41 farmers used chemical for Weed Control farmer respondent engaged to
Use synthetic and for Fertilizer application 30 percent used synthetic. This implies
That majority of the respondent used synthetic for their practices.

Table IV – Common problems Cavendish farmers encountered in there farm at Third
District of Davao city

Variables | F | P | Bunchy topPanamaMokoSigatokaTotal | 30351250 | 6061028100 |

Table IV. Shown the common problems which Cavendish farmers encountered.
30 farmers of 60 percent encountered bunchy top disease; 3 farmers or 6 percent for panama ; 5 farmer of 10 percent for moko and 12 farmers of 28 percent for sigatoka

Discussion

This implies that majority of the farmers respondents encountered bunchy top disease.

Table V. Affect of production of Cavendish banana in Manuel Guianga Tugbok
Davao city

Variables | P | F | YESNOTotal | 50050 | 1000100 | Harvest in a Month1-2345 abovetotal | 4044250 | 80884110 |

Table V. Shown that 100 percent say YES and 0 for NO; for harvesting 80 percent
Harvest in 1-2; 8 percent for 3; 8 percent for 4 and 2 percent for 5 above.

Discussion

This implies that majority of the farmer responded affected by pest, disease and other
Practices for their production and also it has biggest impac for there harvesting.