| Author | Tanit Ruangrungchaikul |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no.AE-96-07 |
| Subject(s) | Tractors--Thailand--Lop Buri
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| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Master of Science |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Abstract | This study was undertaken with a view to collect information on a second-hand tractor import, sale and use, to determine the various costs, and economic level of second hand tractor use, and to predict the future trend of use of second-hand tractors. The survey was conducted and a questionnaire was used for interviews. The data were collected from second-hand tractor dealers and farmers in Lop Buri Province of Thailand. This province has a significant concentration of second-hand tractors. There are 17 establishments dealing with farm tractor import of which two of them sell only new tractors. Most of the second-hand tractor importers located along the Paholyothin Road in Bang Pa-In District, Ayuthaya Province and Klong Luang District, Pathumtani Province. They import small tractors mostly from Japan and big tractors from England. The average sale of these companies was about 300-400 units per year, with the farmers as the most important customer follow by subdealers. Interviews with 98 farmers were conducted for the evaluation of their second-hand tractor use for different farm operations. The average annual use of a second-hand tractor in the paddy farm was 765 hours and for the field crop farm, it was 234 hours. In the paddy farm, on average, 585 hours were used for water pumping, which is about 67% of the total annual use. In the field crop farm, the main activity was ploughing for which the average annual use was 77 hours or 35% of total annual use. The cost per hour and the cost per cropped area decreased with higher annual use. The break-even point analysis showed that the small tractors are economical at less hours of total annual use compared to the annual use of the big ones. |
| Year | 1996 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Environment, Resources, and Development (SERD) |
| Department | Department of Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources (Former title: Department of Food Agriculture, and BioResources (DFAB)) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Agricultural and Food Engineering (AE) |
| Chairperson(s) | Salokhe, Vilas M.; |
| Examination Committee(s) | Gee-Clough, D.;Tanya Niyamapa; |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | Royal Thai Government; |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1996 |