Situations and Problems for Agriculturalists of Ratchaburi Province in Pursuing Safe Agricultural Practices
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https://doi.org/10.61462/cujss.v48i1.759Keywords:
safe agriculture, GAP, agriculture product standards, social capital, Ratchaburi ProvinceAbstract
This paper aims to present the situations, problems and factors related to the pursuit of safe agricultural practices by agriculturalists in Ratchaburi Province. A questionnaire survey of a stratified random sample of 500 agriculturalists and 31 key informant interviews were conducted. The findings were as follows:
1) Agriculturalists in the province recognized the importance of safe agricultural practices when Ratchaburi was selected one of Thailand’s Six Green Agricultural Practices (GAP) Provinces. However, 81 percent of the sample had a low level of knowledge about safe agricultural practices.
2) The major problems the agriculturalists faced were with the time taken in the official process of registering to pursue safe agricultural practices. The agriculturalists were also anxious about preparing the plots to be ready for recording data against the 8 GAP indices.
3) The socio-economic factors related to safe agricultural practices were marital status, status in the community, migration, access to information, current savings, consumption of own produce, experience in natural agriculture, self-learning experience, experience of learning from state officials, observation tours, and knowledge and understanding of GAP. All were statistically significant to the level of 0.05.
The findings could be used in adjusting safe agriculture policy implementation in the context of Ratchaburi so as to meet province's safe agriculture development strategy
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