Opinions Toward Debt of Farmers in Srimongkon Sub-district, Saiyok District, Kanchanaburi Province

Abstract

The objectives of this research were to study 1) demographic factors, 2) economic factors,
3) media exposure toward agricultural information, 4) opinions toward debt of farmers and, 5) to find the
relationships between demographic factors, economic factors, media exposure toward agricultural
information factors and the opinions toward debt of farmers in Srimongkol Sub-district, Saiyok District,
Kanchanaburi Province. Samples consisted of 297 farmers. Data were collected using questionnaires.
Statistical analyses were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, minimum, maximum and
Chi-square. According to the research, the results showed those farmers were female with an average
age of 51.08 years old, married, member of the household were 3 persons, primary school education,
experience in farming average of 19.79 years, the main activity in agricultural was cassava planting,

the average farming area 24.31 rai. The average agricultural income was 93,841.41 baht/year, the average
expense in agricultural 53,912.56 baht/year, the average debt of farmers 83,564.31 baht/year. They got
information about agriculture from people media from community leaders, mass media from television,
activities media from meeting and almost of farmers never got information from online media. The Opinions
toward the debt of farmers in Srimongkol Sub-district the average total was at a high level. The testing of
hypotheses indicated these are economic factors and media exposure toward agricultural information.
There were relationships with the opinions of farmers toward the debt of farmers planting at 0.05 and 0.01
level of significance.