onli in da pilipins v.2

every time we go to a new site for our impact assessment survey, we always make sure to brief the agriculture technicians and provincial coordinators who will help out. since we are limited by time and the location of sites, (we target 2 sites per day, and one site has an average of 30 farmers to be interviewed; the sites are situated in far-flung barrios in maguindanao and shariff kabunsuan) we ask literate farmers to answer the questionnaires with one staff guiding them to ensure reliability of data and stuff. however careful we were, we still encountered some funny responses from the farmers that really brought us big laughs. examples like, responses to household size are BIG and MEDIUM. how medium is MEDIUM and how big is BIG, huh? :) another response we encountered was an answer to expenditure details from the extra income he gained after adopting philrice technologies. man, he answered: add wife!haha. :) it seemed real funny for us but it actually was true. some farmers did afford to pay for dowry because they had extra income after philrice trained them. the japanese funders would be thrilled. :) yet another hall of famer is a hip hop farmer: he said THOUSANG, instead of thousand. and speaking of thousand, yeah, they like to write it instead of just adding 000s after the comma. whoa. :) another farmer seemed reincarnated. he said he was 30 years old but that he was already farming for 94 years! i have two crappy conclusions here: 1: that he is convinced he was a farmer during his past life and that 2: give or take 10 years of farming experience NOW, he clocked in 84 years of farm work during his past life! aba, have you heard of immortal farmers? nyehehe.

so, here it goes. i present to you Exhibit A. pictures of really funny answers from several farmers.onli in da pilipins, man.