Factors Related to Motivation of Farmer’s Descendants on Agricultural Inheritance in Sanpatong District Chiang Mai Province

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to study 1) general characteristics of farmer’s descendants and household in Sanpatong district, Chiang Mai province 2) factors related to motivation of farmer’s descendants on agricultural inheritance. The sampling group was 386 farmer’s descendants by simple random sampling. The data was collected by questionnaire and analyzed by using descriptive statistics and hypothesis testing by multiple regression analysis. The results found that most of farmer’s descendants were male, average age 19 years, most of them were student. Most of farmer’s descendants live in agricultural community, family of farmer’s descendant want their children inherit occupation. People in community think that farmer are very tiring labor, having a high tolerance, risk of oversupply, disasters, low income, poor, need loans for farming however more than half of people in community still want their children to continue doing farm.

In studying of attitude of farmer’s descendants on agriculture, they think that farmer is important for community and country, consistent with context and environment of their community, there is food for household consumption, and farmer’s descendants should continue doing farm. In aspect of motivation on agricultural inheritance, most of them focus on life success motivation, then engagement motivation, health motivation, security motivation, and recognized motivation, respectively.

There were three variables that had a statistical significantly correlated with motivation of farmer’s descendants on agricultural inheritance as follows: 1) the period of household farming 2) agricultural information receiving 3) attitude of farmer’s descendant to agriculture. As for the suggestions of this research, related organization should find way to motivate farmer’s descendant to do farming, focus on knowledge of farm management, providing new agricultural information for farmers’ decision-making. Moreover, they should encourage farmers’ organization for agricultural price negotiations and provide market for agricultural products for stability of farmer household.