Attitude Towards Tilapia Organic Culture System Adaptation of Farmers in Maegad, Parphai Subdistrict, Sansai District, Chiang Mai Province

Abstract

     The objectives of this research were to study the attitude towards tilapia organic culture adaptation as well as to investigate the factors affecting attitudes including socioeconomic attributes, commercial tilapia culture information and freshwater organic aquaculture cognition of tilapia farmers in the Maegad, Parphai subdistrict, Sansai district,Chiang Mai province. The information could be applied to promote the adaptation to tilapia organic culture system further. The population was commercial fish farmers in the Sansai district area. The samples were gathered from all members in tilapia culture groups of 105 farmers selected by the purposive sampling method. The validity and reliability questionnaires were approved moreover, structure interviews were used as tools. Data analysis was performed with descriptive statistics, Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient and chi-square test. The results revealed that majority of the tilapia farmers performed the overall positive attitude towards adaptation to tilapia organic culture system while sub attitude included environment awareness, organic culture certificate and marketing, the positive attitude was also obtained. In contrary, the negative attitude about the farmer cooperation readiness was found. The four factors included tilapia culture experience, initial tilapia size, training experience frequency and cognition which were affected the attitudes significantly. In conclusion, the process to encourage the tilapia farmers adaptation, the eligible farmers who has readiness and more experiences should be chosen individually or grouping as a pioneer and leader to conduct tilapia organic culture system. After that, the specific intensive training program about implementing to tilapia organic culture certify included supplying chain, production methodology, marketing channel and value adding byfish processing should be conducted completely.