Agro-cultural changes on farm people at the Oown - stream area of Lam Nam Oon Dam [Thailand]
1984
Saovakon Sudsawasd (Kasetsart Univ., Bangkok (Thailand). Faculty of Social Science. Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology)
Results were found as most samples held their own land with the average size of 15 rai while the remainder rented all the land they farmed. Family members were the principal bread earners in farming. Their cash investment in farming did not exceed B 3,000. Loans were scarcely found among the sample group. Rice was the major crop and was mostly transplanted. It was Mono crop of rice and its yield was between 10-30 Tang per rai. For the adoption of agricultural technologies, about two-third of the samples did not grow a second crop in the dry season so most of soil was left unplanted. Groundnuts, mungbeans, pumpkins, and some vegetables were grown in unsubstantial amount after the rice harvest. New improved seeds were mostly accepted. Most of the samples made use of animal manure in their paddy fields in order to maintain soil fertility. Moderate number of farmers applied plant chemical insecticides but nearly half a number of respondents accepted this technique. Agricultural tools, simple and locally available, were used to supplement work animals for harrowing, threshing and the like. Five hypothesized relationships involved some socio-economic characteristics and the adoption of agricultural technologies. Only one alternative hypothesis was supported. The remaining four hypotheses were rejected. Income of the farm people was positively related to the adoption of innovation. Sex, age, education and number of land holdings were not statistically related at 0.50 level to the adoption of agricultural technologies.
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