Knowledge and opinion on turmeric production with good agricultural practice (GAP) and good manufacturing practice (GMP) of farmers in Paphayom district, Phatthalung province

Abstract

The turmeric production with Good Agricultural Practice (GAP) and Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) of farmers was conducted to study, 1) the personal demographic characteristic, 2) the knowledge and opinion on turmeric production with GAP and GMP, 3) practice on turmeric production with GAP and GMP, 4) factors relate to turmeric production with GAP standards and GMP guidelines of 104 farmers who had produced turmeric in Paphayom District, Phatthalung Province. Interview schedule was used to collect the data. The statistical analysis was carried out by descriptive statistics and correlation coefficient. The result revealed that 1) most of farmers at 81.7% were female with average age of 51.45 years old, and graduated in elementary school at 68.3%. They had 12.45 years of experience in turmeric production. They had an average area of 1.87 rai for turmeric cultivation with 2 household labors. They had an average yield of turmeric at 1,239.62 kg./rai, with an average cost of turmeric production at 5,107.69 THB/rai and average income from turmeric at 33,298.08 THB/rai. Most of them used their own funds to produce turmeric at 97.1% and 73.1% of them were members of the agricultural group. 2) They had a high level of knowledge on GAP standards and GMP guidelines with average scores of 11.01 and 13.13, respectively. Also they agree strongly about GAP standards and GMP guidelines with average of 2.72 and 2.91, respectively. 3) The majority of farmers, 85.6% produce turmeric according to the GAP standard at moderate level taking 5-15 of the 23 items. However, 54.8% of farmers produced turmeric on accordance with the GMP guidelines at high level, followed by 14-20 of 20 items. 4) The hypothesis test was found that opinion on turmeric production with GAP and GMP related to practice on turmeric production with GAP and GMP.