Opinions of Farmers on Rice Production According to Organic Rice Standards Huai Thap Than District, Srisaket Province

Abstract

The objectives of this research were: 1) to study personal factors, economic factors, information
exposure and basic knowledge on rice production specifications according to organic rice standards.
2) the opinions of farmers on rice production according to organic rice standards. 3) comparison of
farmers’ opinions on rice production according to organic rice standards based on personal factors,
economic factors and information exposure 4) the relationship between the basic knowledge on rice
production specifications according to organic rice standards and the opinions of farmers on rice
production according to organic rice standard. The samples used in the study were 139 farmers who

produce rice according to organic rice standards. The data were collected by interviews. Statistics used
for data analysis were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation,t-test, F-test and Pearson’s
product moment correlation coefficients. The research found that most of the farmers were females, with
an average age of 50.28 years. The average experience was 4.53 years. The average area was 9.48 rai.
The average labor was 2.65 people. The average income was 38,219 baht. The average expenditure was
6,346.76 baht. Exposure of community leaders, training and television were at high levels. Basic knowledge
on rice production specifications according to organic rice standards for overall had the average at high
levels. The overall opinion of Farmers had an average at high levels. The results of the hypothesis testing
showed that the farmers had personal factors, economic factors, information exposure differently
the opinions of farmers on rice production according to organic rice standards were not different had
a significance level of 0.05. Basic knowledge of rice production specifications according to organic rice
standards was not correlated with farmers’ opinion on rice production according to organic rice standards
had a significant level of 0.05.