Factors affecting of adoption of Trichoderma utilization in vegetable production disease control by farmers in Santisuk District, Nan Province

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to analyze factors affecting the acceptance of Trichoderma plant disease control in Vegetable production of farmers in Santisuk District, Nan Province, from farmers who Register farmers with the Department of Agricultural Extension. Production year 2023/2024, a total of 179 cases, using the Taro Yamane formula at an error level of 0.05, resulting in a sample size of 124 cases. The instrument used for data collection is an interview. Data were analyzed using statistics such as percentages, averages, standard deviations, and multiple regression analysis. The results of the study found that most farmers had an average age of 54.05 years, graduated from primary school, 38.70 percentage, had an average of 7.87 years of vegetable production experience. Farmers attended training an average of 2.51 times, with an average total annual income of 79,669.84 baht, an average income from the agricultural sector of 31,460.88 baht, an average income from growing vegetables of 26,461.13 baht, an average income outside of the agricultural sector 21,747.82 baht, average production price 23.46 baht, average number of vegetable production times in the production year 2023, 5.81 times, average number of laborers in vegetable production 2.31 people, average vegetable production area 1.31 rai, and average fertilizer application 2.40 times.The results of the simple correlation coefficient test (Pearson Correlation) found that the factors affecting the acceptance of using Trichoderma fungus to control plant diseases in vegetable production were statistically significant at the 0.05 level is the number of times fertilizing with a correlation coefficient equal to -0.090. For other variables, it was found that there was no relationship at the level of statistical significance at the 0.05 level including age, and vegetable production prices, the number of vegetable production times, number of vegetable production workers, income from vegetable production, vegetable production area, number of times to apply fertilizer, and the use of Trichoderma fungus to control plant diseases in vegetable production.