Farmers’ Capacity Building on Production of Save Local Chilli Variety Haurue, in Ubon Ratchathani Province

Abstract

The Huarue chili is economic important cash of industrial crop of Ubon Ratchathani province. If the cultivation standard is maintained, long-term income can be generated. The purposes of the study were (1) to study the cultivation method by chili grown in Ubon Ratchathani province under the safety standard and (2) to compare the cultivation methods under this standard among chili grown whose cultivation experience and education backgrounds were different. The study took eight months and look at 150 Huarue chili grown. Data was collected through the use of a questionnaire and analyzed by descriptive statistics to calculate frequency and percentage, and compare the results using the F-test. It was (1) the most frequently followed safety cultivation standard was not using human waste in the chili bed (=3.85 )  followed by (if necessary) the use of hazardous substance as recommended by the Department of Agriculture (=3.82 )  and (2) chili grown who had different cultivation skills had two different safety as mentioned in no. 3 that was if necessary, the hazardous substance would be used as recommended by Department of Agriculture or as directed on the label. This was different at the critical level 0.05 which chili grown whose cultivation skill greater than 20 years better followed the safety standard than the ones whose cultivation skill less than 10 years and whose cultivation skill between 11-20 years. There was  statistical different at 0.05 in no.4 that when plant pathology spreads the protection had to be conducted academically; the agriculturist whose cultivation skill greater than 20 years better followed the safety standard than the ones who had cultivation skill between 11-20 years. For the agriculturists who had different education background were capable to follow the safety standard equally with statistic different at 0.05.