Human Capital Factors Affecting the Income and Labor Productivity of Rubber Farmers: Case Study of Surat Thani Province

Abstract

This research aimed to study the labor productivity of rubber farmers and to study human capital factors affecting the income and labor productivity of rubber farmers. Used questionnaires with sample size of 400. The statistics used for analysis were mean, standard deviation, percentage, regression analysis. The results of the study found that total labor productivity 1,803.18 kg/rai/year and average were 4.51 kg/rai/year. The human capital of the rubber farmers had found that factors agricultural experience, occupation before rubber planting, health and knowledge of rubber directly variable at a level of significance 0.05. Education level and knowledge of modern farmers was directly proportional to income at a level of significance 0.10. The factors of human capital to labor productivity, it was found that agricultural experience, health condition and modern farmers knowledge directly proportional to labor productivity at the level of significance 0.01 and education level, career before planting rubber, rubber knowledge directly proportional to labor productivity at the level of significance 0.05. Approaches        to promoting rubber plantation farmers to increase their income and labor productivity should be based on the human capital potential of rubber farmers. including providing additional knowledge.