Farmer's decision - making on crop cultivation in the Northeast of Thailand | |
| Author | Sassana Sornpha |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no.RD-13-13 |
| Subject(s) | Agriculture--Decision making--Thailand, Northeastern Farmers--Decision making--Thailand, Northeastern |
| Note | 88 leaves : ill., map, charts |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Series Statement | Thesis ; no. RD-13-13 |
| Abstract | The research examined farmers’ decision - making on crop cultivation in the Northeast of Thailand. The study includes five major objectives: to investigate why some farmers changed from corn/cassava cultivation to para - rubber plantation and some did not; to analyze farm househol d income, including, the cost and return from corn/cassava cash crops and para - rubber; to study farmers’ willingness to continue corn/ cassava cash crop cultivation and para rubber plantation; to analyze reason s influencing farmers’ decisions including socio - economic, biophysical, institutional and infrastructure characteristics on continuation of traditional cash crops and adopt ion of new cash crop plantation; and to give the recommendation to develop crop cultivation in the Northeast of Thailand . The research was operated in one sub - district in Northeast of Thailand based on a survey questionnaire with total of 102 sampled household as important method to collect data. The research was emphasized on quantitative and also qualitative technique was used. The research was a comparative study of farmers who continue growing traditional corn/cassava and shift to para - rubber cultivation. Findings of this research shows that three significant main factors influencing no shifting and shifting from corn and cassava cultivation to para rubber consist of household labor force size, average income from non - agricultural activity and income from crop which play as important role on farmers’ decision - making on crop cultivation. Most of farmers of both farmer groups are willing to continue growing current cultivated crops. The most important reasons dominated farmers’ willingness to continue growing these crops include high price, availability of market for product, suitable land, high benefit, adequate land, to have high experience, adequate household labor, policy support for price and easy access to credit respectively, while there are a little farmers who are unwilling to continue growing current cultivated crops. The reasons play as important roles for farmers’ unwillingness include high cost of production, low benefit, highly indebted, no adequate land, unsuitable land, low soil fertility and unavailability of irrigation water respectively. Recommendations were given to suggest involved officers for implementation to promote stability and capability on farmers’ crop cultivation and to provide effective strategies for farmers’ cropcultivation. |
| Year | 2013 |
| Corresponding Series Added Entry | Asian Institute of Technology. Thesis ; no. RD-13-13 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Environment, Resources, and Development |
| Department | Department of Development and Sustainability (DDS) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Rural Development, Gender and Resources (RD) |
| Chairperson(s) | Ahmad, Mokbul Morshed |
| Examination Committee(s) | Soparth Pongquan, Thapa, Gopal Bahadur |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | AIT Fellowship, International Fellowship Program-Ford Foundation, USA |
| Degree | Thesis (M. Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2013 |