ปัจจัยที่มีผลต่อการยอมรับเทคโนโลยีการผลิตเสาวรสของเกษตรกรในพื้นที่โครงการพัฒนาพื้นที่สูงแบบโครงการหลวงสบเมย อำเภอสบเมย จังหวัดแม่ฮ่องสอน

Abstract

The objectives of this research were 1) to study the factors affecting to farmer’s adoption of passion fruit production technology in the Sob Moei highland development project using Royal Project System, Sob Moei district, Mea Hong Son Province and 2) to study the farmer’s problem and need for passion fruit production. The interview schedule was created to collect data from a sample of 100 farmers growing passion fruit. The collected data were analyzed for frequency, percentage, mean, maximum, minimum, standard deviation and multiple repression analysis. The results reveal that the factors affecting to farmer’s adoption of passion fruit production technology in the Sob Moei highland development project using Royal Project System, Sob Moei district, Mea Hong Son Province were 1) knowledge of passion fruit production and 2) contact and receiving guidance form agricultural extension officer. These 2 factors had positive correlation with the level of adoption of passion fruit production technology as significant at the 0.01 level showed the coefficient of determination at 45.3 percentage. The problem and requirement of the farmers for passion fruit production present that they had the production problem in medium level especially the diseases, insects and other pest. For farmers’ requirement were the officer should closely visit and continuously provide knowledge about the outbreak of plant diseases, insect pest and their control. Moreover, they had required tank and water system for using water throughout crop production. Suggestions of this research, the officer should provide knowledge and realize to the farmers about the vantage of curing as well as organize a workshop and invite the specialist for providing the deep knowledge and advising the pest managements. Suggestions for next research, the extension and adoption of passion fruit production in other provinces should be studied for compared with this research.