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Abstract

This research used questionnaire to collect data, conducted to find out about attitude and satisfaction of members participated I the Seed Bank of Nong Kaew Royal Development Project Center. The populations in this study were current members of the project in total of 120 samples. The objective of this research was to study the attitude of the samples toward the project measured with Likert Scale. The satisfaction was studied and defied the relationships between samples’ personal factors and satisfaction in agricultural extension, increment of return after joining the project, agricultural outcomes and samples’ expectations on problems-solving from the project using Chi square test with statistic significant at 0.05. And to find out about the problems, obstacles and recommendations from the sample, descriptive statistic and analyze mean and standard derivation were used. The result of the research shows that the samples were mostly female, aged between 21-45 years old, uneducated, earn average income below 7500 baht per month, mostly farmers, family members between 4-5 peoples, farming labor less than 2 peoples, agricultural area less than 10 rais, grows cowpea objected to increase income, primary fund source is from personal savings and mostly prefer to send back and sell seeds at the Seed Bank project. Moreover, most members had joint the project between 1-3 years. The attitude toward the project; most samples agreed that the project was established for the farmer to join as a member, to increase the members’ income, because the farmers suggested that the project always buy the seed constantly at the suitable price so they give this topic the highest average score. The result of statistical hypothesis testing found out the relationship between samples’ personal factors; the duration joining the project affected the satisfaction on staff’s suggestion. The relationship between samples’ personal factors and their satisfaction on agricultural outcome; gender, age, education, agriculture areas affect the satisfaction. The relationship between samples’ personal factors and their satisfaction on problem solving expectation; agricultural labor and objective of growing cowpea affected the satisfaction. The research found that problem and obstacles the members thought was the project staff and funding problem. The samples mostly thought how the project buy the seeds into the bank twice a year was suitable and the time around December to January was the good time to do so. The income from cowpea was satisfied, soil in agricultural area was better. But most members still did not understand the objective, rules and regulations of the project and they suggested there should be a follow up meeting after the members joining the project.