Community Participation with Pangsak Community Forest Administration, Mae Poen Sub-district, Mae Poen District, Nakhon Sawan Province

Abstract

Community Forest is the principle of forest resource management, to solve the problem of forest land encroachment and exceeding forest resource utilization, the objectives of the study to determine people and social and to determine the economic factors and level of involvement in affecting engagement for administrative management and capacity development guidelines in the Pangsak community forest in Nakhon Sawan Province. The research methodology was employed depth interview for data collection and analyze the position and potential by SWOT and TOWS matrix of 9 people. The survey research by questionnaire then analyze data by descriptive and inferential statistics, through data correlation by testing the hypothesis of 91 people using an independent t-test, one-way ANOVA, and Chi-square at a significance level of 0.10.

The study found that 62.64% of the respondents were female and their average age is 30-59 years old. Most of them graduated from primary school with there are 4-6 household members. The main occupation was agriculture and having the minor occupation was general contractor. Their household annual income is 50,001-100,000 Baht with expense of 75,001-100,000 Baht, which they have liability more than 100,000 Baht. There is a loan from the village fund. Land tenure is an agricultural land reform. There is a high level of use of natural resource utilization with average score of 3.93. The opinion on community forest management at the highest levels of economic society and environment with the mean 4.30 that provided by Public Participation (IAP2) at the levels of information. The level of satisfaction was 43.96%, in additional to analyze position and potential findings the situation is a cash cow. The outside pulls in, but the inside is outstanding for ready to be applied opportunities in the future.