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Abstract

The purpose of this research was to study some basic economic and social characteristics of farmers. Analysis of opinion level in compliance with organic rice standard and analyze the problems of farmers and develop recommendations for the implementation of organic rice standards of farmers in Chiang Dao District, Chiang Mai Province. The population used in the research were farmers registered to rice in Chiang Dao District Chiang Mai Province with the Chiang Dao District Agriculture Office in 2019, who had never planted organic rice before And the suitable area for growing organic rice is that it is a lowland area and has rights in 7 sub-districts, namely Ping Khong Subdistrict, Chiang Dao Subdistrict, Thung Khao Phuang Subdistrict, Mae Na Subdistrict, Muang Ngai Subdistrict, Muang Kong Subdistrict and Mueang Na Subdistrict. Total 1 ,239 households. The researcher calculated the sample size. By applying Taro Yamane's calculation formula, using an acceptable tolerance of 0.07 or at 93% confidence level, a total of 176 households were sampled in this study and a simple random sampling method was used by lottery. Unlisted list of farmers. The instrument used for data collection was an interview form with a confidence value of 0.88 according to Cronbach's method. Data were collected during January-March 2020. The statistics used for data analysis were frequency, percentage, mean, maximum value, minimum value, standard deviation and the hypothesis by multiple regression analysis (Enter method). The study indicated that most farmers are male 71.0 percent, with an average age of 53.8 years and educated in the primary level. Farmers had an average rice cultivation experience of 21.6 years, the average number of household workers was 2.:2, with an average rice planting area of 5.9 rai. Most farmers do not rent fields for rice cultivation and the purpose of producing rice for distribution. Most farmers do not have any outstanding debt burden, with indebted farmers. Have average outstanding liabilities 87,072.29 baht. In the past 3 months, farmers received an average of 1.0 times of news about organic rice, contacted staff on organic rice 0.2 times, and in 2019, most farmers had no training experience in organic rice. Farmers are of the opinion that they can comply with organic rice standards at a moderate level. The results of the hypothesis testing showed that the age factor rice production objective there was a negative correlation but receiving news about organic rice there was a positive correlation with the opinion of the organic rice standard practice statistically significant at a level of 0.05. Problems and recommendations for the implementation of organic rice standards among farmers in Chiang Dao District. Chiang Mai Province it was found that most of the farmers faced a shortage of funds and think that growing organic rice is not worth the investment, planting plots next to plots that use chemicals, no water sources for producing organic rice, no knowledge of organic rice production, no support market, cannot get rid of diseases insects weeds without using chemicals and there is no organic rice seed source. As for the needs of farmers, farmers have a need for knowledge on organic rice production. Want to support the integration of organic rice production and a water source that can produce organic rice. Farmer have provided suggestions for implementing organic rice standards. That the planting and processing standards should be separated which argues that farmers can grow organic rice according to the standard but no mills for personal rice milling and there is no mill that only buys organic rice Therefore must be sold together with rice that uses chemicals. Therefore, relevant agencies must pay attention to the integration of organic rice production and continue to do so in order to expand the area for growing organic rice more. There is regular publicity to create awareness of organic rice production through channels that are easily accessible to farmers. and clearly set targets to promote organic rice production in the Chiang Dao area Support the creation of an organic rice production network as well as supporting a machine that is a rice milling machine with a production capacity suitable for organic rice production in the area It is managed in the form of a farmer group and market link as well as the further development of organic rice products.