Factors related to the attitude towards transferring innovation from local wisdom of hill tribe farmers in the Royal Project area

Abstract

     The objectives of this research are to study the attitude of the hill tribe farmers in the Royal Project area towards transferring innovation from local wisdom, and to understand the factors influencing the attitude of the hill tribe farmers in the Royal Project area towards transferring innovation. The samples for this study are 231 hill tribe farmers in the Royal Project area, selected by the multi-stage sampling method. Data were collected using questionnaires for the analysis based on descriptive statistics including frequency, percentage, minimum, maximum, and standard deviation, and the results of the multiple regression. The findings showed that the attitude of the samples under study towards transferring innovation from local wisdom was highly positive in all 3 aspects, which are 1) creating economic wealth, 2) creating social wealth, and 3) creating environmental sustainability. All factors likely to influence the attitude of the hill tribe farmers in this study which include farmland area, agricultural characteristics, total household income, and the number of labor in farming were found to have the influence at the 0.05 statistical significance level.