Factors Affecting People Participation in Water Onion (Crinum thaianum J. Schulze) Conservation at Nakha Sub-district, Suk Samran District, Ranong Province

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to study level of people participation and factors affecting participation in water onion conservation at Nakha sub-district, Suk Samran district, Ranong province. Stratified sampling technique was used with the Yamane (1973) technique to determine the sample size of 170 households from 297 households in two villages. The households were divided into two categories as adjacent to the canal and non-adjacent to the canal. Data was collected by using a questionnaire and was analyzed by using descriptive statistics. Hypothesis test used statistical methods as follows t-test, F-test and Pearson’s correlation at 95% confidence level.

The results showed that the level of people participation in water onion conservation at Nakha sub-district, Suk Samran district, Ranong province was at moderate level ( =2.84). Factors affecting people participation in water onion conservation were educational level (F=4.069, p-value=0.019), resettled period (F=4.776, p-value=0.010), household annual income (F=3.927, p-value=0.022), land holding (t=2.351, p-value=0.026), status in community (t=6.280, p-value=0.000), opinions in water onion conservation guidelines (r=0.586, p-value=0.000) and expectation to benefit from the implementation in water onion conservation guidelines (r=0.491, p-value =0.000). Knowledge should be conveyed on how to conserve water onion. In addition, people needed to be motivated to participate conservation on the sustainable utilization of water onion seriously.