Farmer’s needs for extension on meat goat production in Chiang Mai, Lamphun and Lampang provinces

Abstract

The main objective of this research was to study factors related to farmer’s needs for extension on meat goat production in Chiang Mai, Lamphun and Lampang provinces. The sample group was 142 farmers that participate in the Lanna Goat-Sheep Project Phase 1. In this research, calculated by Taro Yamane formula at the acceptable sampling error at 0.05. An interview schedule was used to collect data, alpha coefficient was 0.883 and stepwise multiple regression analysis was used to analyze the data. The result showed that most of the farmers were male with an average age of 53.56 years. Graduated from high school, had 3.6 years of experience in raising meat goats, the average number of meat goats raised in the farm was 33.9 heads and there is regular vaccination against disease for meat goats. In 2021, farmers generate an average of 32,697.18 bath/year form the sale of meat goats. The most farmers have contact with livestock officers, there were an average of 1.99 channels for receiving news about meat goat production and no training in raising meat goats. However, farmers faced the problem of being pressured by middlemen and no livestock officers coming to give advice at the farm. The farmers want the relevant agencies to promote the market and livestock officers came to give advice. The farmers had a high level of need for knowledge in meat goat production ( = 2.77). Furthermore, it found that the education level and the number of meat goats on the farm had a statistically significant positive correlation at the 0.01 level and the number of channels for receiving news about meat goat production had a statistically significant negative correlation at the 0.05 level.