ความรู้และความเข้าใจของเกษตรกรในการผลิตอาหารเสริม อัดก้อนสำหรับโคเนื้อในตำบลท่าน้าว อำเภอภูเพียง จังหวัดน่าน

Abstract

The objectives of this research were to study, the knowledge and understanding of farmers produced food from Supplementary feed block production for beef cattle, to study the relationship between personal factor, economic factor, social factor and consumer factors related to the knowledge and understanding of demand from beef cattle, and to study of problems from briquette for beef cattle. The populations in this study were cattle farmers from Ta Nao Sub-district 200 data collected by questionnaires. Data were analyzed by using the percentage, average, maximum, minimum, standard deviation and the hypothesis was tested using the Chi-square test. From research finding, it was found that most farmers were male within the age-range of 51-60 years old, and had finished education at the primary level. Most of them were farmers and experience in raising cattle was 3-6 years, under free range husbandry. More than half of them used to attend seminar about feeding of beef cattle 1-5 times per year. The income was in the range of 5,001-10,000 Baht per year. The 59 percentage of all farmers, cost was from feed, supplementary feed, drug and wage. The number of beef cattle raised was lower than 5 animals, it was set up the famer group in their village to receive the information from government officials, the interrelate co-operate and beef cattle groups. The information about the supplementary feed block was receipted from government officials and the interrelate co-operate. For the farmers who feed the beef cattle had a little understanding of the supplementary feed block with 56.5 percentages. The farmers had a low level for production of the supplementary feed block. Overview of the farmers had a low level to knowledge about the supplementary feed block. According to factors of the knowledge and understanding of farmer who produce the supplementary feed block regarding to all 11 factors, the statistically significance was found in 9 factors. gender, age, education, experience from the feeding of beef cattle, experience from seminar from the feeding of beef cattle, income from career, the number of the beef cattle, beef cattle group, knowledge from government official or the expert and factor of demand for producing the supplementary feed block for the beet cattle were significantly at 0.01 level The problems and suggestion of the farmer who produce the supplementary feed block was found that the farmers were lacked of capital for providing the instrument and raw material for producing the supplementary feed block, experience, the corrected method, feed and the group had less efficiency for distribution of information and providing the raw materials including the exchange of information in their groups.