Factors affecting swamp buffalo production in Songkhram wet land, Nakhon Phanom province, Thailand
2019
Suphawadee Yaemkong(Pibulsongkram Rajabhat University, Phitsanuloke (Thailand). Faculty of Food and Agriculture Technology. Animal Science Program) E-mail:suphayaku@hotmail.com | Mattaneeya Sarakul(Nakhon Phanom University, Nakhon Phanom (Thailand). Faculty of Agriculture and Technology. Department of Animal Science) | Tuan Nguyen Ngoc(Vietnam National University of Agriculture, Hanoi (Vietnam). Faculty of Fisheries)
The current study was conducted to find out the factors affecting to swamp buffalo production in Songkhram wet land area (consisting of 3 districts: Si Songkhram, Tha Uthen, and Na Wa Districts), Nakhon Phanom province, Thailand. The data were collected from 370 farmers and analyzed by using Chi-square to test association of the studied factors between farm groups (Group I: farmers who produced the swamp for fancy buffaloes and showing, and Group II: farmers who produced the buffaloes for power work and meat production) in the study population. The results showed that many factors that affected to buffalo production, such as source of knowledge used for buffalo production, patterns of buffalo production, kinds of land, objectives for buffalo production, record keeping, types of roughage, person who suggest to select buffalo, mating systems, changing sire, information for considering for replacement dams selection, age at first mating, and problem and obstacle related to the achievement of swamp buffalo production (P LT 0.01) excepted for gender of farmers, educational level and type of labor for buffalo production (P GT 0.05). This information implied the need of increasing efficiency of buffalo production, and also improvement of knowledge, understanding and chance in sire selection of the farmers.
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