Disease Protective Practice Adopted by Sweet Corn Farmers in Mae Tang District, Chiang Mai Province
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This study was conducted to investigate: 1) socio-economic attributes of farmers producing sweet corn in Mae Tang district, Chiang Mai province; 2) sweet corn disease prevention practice of the farmers; 3) factors affecting sweet corn disease prevention practice of the farmers; and 4) problems encountered by farmers in sweet corn disease prevention. Questionnaires were used for data collection administered with a sample group of 205 sweet corn farmers obtained by simple random sampling. Obtained data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics: percentage, mean, and standard deviation. Multiple regression analyze was also conducted.
Results of the study revealed that most of the respondents were male of 53.75 years old on average, with an elementary school education and 2.78 household workforce on average. Most of the respondents did not have any social position. The respondents joined 2.88 agricultural groups and contacted agricultural authorities 4.51 times per year on average. They attended training on sweet corn disease prevention at the rate of 0.79 times per year on average. The respondents perceived information about sweet corn disease prevention for 22.23 times per year and had 17.84 years of experience in sweet corn production on average. The respondents had a moderate level of knowledge on a sweet corn disease prevention practice (=3.23). Since most of respondents did not have training on sweet corn disease prevention practice, they did not have knowledge on sweet corn disease prevention practice. The factors affecting respondents’ practice to prevent sweet corn disease with a positive statistically significant level was educational attainment (Sig.=0.001) and a negative was age (Sig.=0.010).
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