Author: Sassana Sornpha
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Thesis no.RD-13-13
Year: 2013
Academic Program: Regional and Rural Development Planning (RRDP)
Type: Thesis (M. Sc.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 2013
Examination Committee: Soparth Pongquan, Gopal Bahadur Thapa, Mokbul Morshed Ahmad(Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: The research examined farmers’ decision – making on crop cultivation in the Northeast of Thailand. The study includes five major objectives: to investigate why some farmers changed from corn/cassava cultivation to para – rubber plantation and some did not to analyze farm househol d income, including, the cost and return from corn/cassava cash crops and para – rubber to study farmers’ willingness to continue corn/ cassava cash crop cultivation and para rubber plantation to analyze reason s influencing farmers’ decisions including socio – economic, biophysical, institutional and infrastructure characteristics on continuation of traditional cash crops and adopt ion of new cash crop plantation and to give the recommendation to develop crop cultivation in the Northeast of Thailand . The r esearch was operat ed in one sub – district in Northeast of Thailand b ased on a survey questionnaire with total of 102 sampled hou sehold as important method to collect data . The research was emphasize d on quantitative and also qualitative technique was used . The research was a comparative study of farmers who continue growing traditional corn/cassava and shift to para – rubber cultivation. Findings of this research shows that three significant main factors influencing no shifting and shifting from corn and ca ssava cultivation to para rubber consist of household labor force size, average income from non – agricultural activity and income from crop which play as important role on farmers’ decision – making on crop cultivation . Most of farmers of both farmer groups a re willing to continue growing current cultivated crops. The most important reasons dominated farmers’ willingness to continue growing these crops include high price , availability of market for product, suitable land, high benefit, adequate land, to have high exper
Scholarship Donor(s): AIT Fellowship; International Fellowship Program-Ford Foundation, USA
Note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Regional and Rural Development Planning
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