ความพึงพอใจของเกษตรกรต่อโครงการรับจำนำข้าวเปลือกในจังหวัดลำพูน

Abstract

The objectives of this research were to study 1) the satisfactory level of farmers, 2) the factors relating to farmers’ satisfaction, and 3) the problems, obstaclesand suggestions of farmers toward rice pledging program in Lamphun province. The samples used in this research consisted of 341 farmers participated rice pledging program in Lamphun province. Data was collected through the use of questionnaires and analyzed by statistical program for social sciences research. Statistics employed were frequency, percentage, mean, maximum, minimum, standard deviation, and multiple regression analysis. The results revealed that 51% of the farmers were male, with an average age of 47.88 year having primary education, with an average experience of rice production of 27.13 years. The average family income was 219,179.77 baht per year. The average of farm size was 22.85 rais having the average labor of 3.43 persons per household. All farmers were members of the Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives group. Their average area of rice production was 15.50 rais. The average rice yield was 8,305.42 kilograms. Most of them received the most rice pledging project information from agricultural extension officer, also they had an average rice pledging of 4,489.73 kilograms.

The study on farmers’ satisfaction toward rice pledging program concerning the satisfaction level in the following 2 dimensions: 1) rice farmer registration and providing certification for farmers, and 2) paddy delivery at the participating mills of Public Warehouse Organization. The result was satisfied in a medium level on rice farmer registration and providing certification for farmers. However, the satisfaction on paddy delivery at the participating mills of Public warehouse organization was significantly low. The study of factors that had a statistically significant correlated with farmers’ satisfaction were being members of institute of agriculture rice pledging, rice yield, sources of rice pledging project information, the amount of pledged rice, and farmers’ opinion toward the rice pledging program. The 5 factors had positive relationship with the level of farmers’ satisfaction toward rice pledging program. As for problems, obstacles and suggestion of farmers toward rice pledging program, farmers were not confident in the validity of the scales and the checking of rice quality. The number of participating mills are few. The farmers suggested that responsible agency for the rice pledging program with a single agency to provide ease of operation and improve the validity of the scales and the checking of rice quality in order to increase farmers' confidence in participating the rice pledging program.