Farmer groups' role in the agricultural resources management on coastal land in Thailand
2002
Thotsaporn Maneeratana | Kesinee Payanun (Kasetsart Univ., Bangkok (Thailand). Dept. of Tropical Agriculture)
Objective of the study was to analyze roles of farmer groups in agricultural resources management on the coastal land of Thailand. Most of the committee were 51 years old male and completed elementary school. Each family had average land ownership of about 4.64 hectares for various agricultural activities, such as orchard, paddy field, coconut, vegetable, rubber, field crops, fish and shrimp raising, etc., and most of them had funds of their own. An average annual income of 90,992 baht was earned from fisheries, 75,953 baht from crops and 27,847 baht from livestock per household. Rainfall, product varieties, capital and farmer group systems were main factors influencing their agriculture activities. In general, the farmer groups' role on natural resources and environment management was providing support for people participation on mangrove forest protection, motivating people to maintain clean water resources, prohibiting the disposal of garbage and offensive waste material on public places, as well as strict monitoring of following instructions on chemical pesticides label. It was recommended that pertinent government sectors should provide opportunities to increase farmer groups' participation in community based coastal resources management activities as a community-centered development paradigm.
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