Participation of the Members in the Royal Vegetable Seed Production’s Members Project ‘Peun Choy Peun’ Project under the Chakrapan Phensiri Plant Development Center in Chiang Rai Province

Abstract

The objectives of this research were to study 1) basic demographic characteristics, economic, and social information, 2) knowledge of the royal vegetable seed production, 3) to compare the participation in the operations of the royal vegetable of members, and 4) problems and obstacles in the production of vegetable seeds. The data were collected from 241 sample size using interview schedule. The statistic used for data analysis was frequency, mean, percentage, standard deviation, and t-test and F-test. The results found that project members were female, age average 58.27 years old, had a primary level of education. They were farmers and had income less than 10,000 baht/year. They had 6.10 years of experience in vegetable seed production. The average number of household workers was 2 persons. The farmers had an average holding agricultural area as 1.78 rai. They had participated in the agricultural group for vegetable seed production and were not a membership of other groups. The farmers contacted staff at Chakrapan Pensiri Plant Development Center for vegetable seed production, received information on vegetable seed production from people media. Project members had a high level of knowledge of vegetable seed production (average 0.67). Most problems were the uncertainty of the weather. For example, in the rainy season vegetable seedlings often had fungi, insufficient water supply for agriculture and the problem of weed and insect control. The results of the hypothesis testing showed that differences in career of farmers and group participation of farmers in vegetable seed production would differ in member’ precipitation under the Royal Seed Production Project ‘Peun Choy Peun’ at the statistical significance level of 0.01 and differences in holding agricultural area would differ in members’ precipitation under the Royal Seed Production Project ‘Peun Choy Peun’ at a statistical significance level of 0.05.