Author: Sawanit Phongprapai
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Thesis no. HS-90-27
Year: 1990
Academic Program: Human Settlement (HS)
Type: Thesis (M.Sc.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 1985
Examination Committee: E. Desingu Setty (Chairperson); Hiran D. Dias, Takashi Onishi (Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: Prior to the introduction of the Training and Visit System (T&V System), Thailand faced a lot of problems in agricultural extension due to lack of a proper system. Until 1974, when the T&V System was introduced on the recommendation of the World Bank, agricultural extension in Thailand has not been developed . This research attempts to study the way the Training and Visit System (T&V System) worked in order to find out the kind of problems faced in translating the system into practice and to derive some policy implications for the improvement of the National Agricultural Extension Development in Thailand. However, since the extension system does not operate in a controlled laboratory as an experiment in natural science, the information for supporting this kind of study is difficult to gather and the analysis is limited only to the data obtained from documents, personal discussions, questionnaires and researcher’s observation. Khon Kaen Province was selected as the study area because the researcher is familiar with the area and the local officers, and because this system has been in operation in this province for more than four years with the normal inputs from the DOAE, thus, analyzing the real implementation of the approach in this area would be reasonable and fit the purpose of the study. However, due to time and budget limitation, only four districts in this province were selected to conduct a field survey . As the T&V System was designed for agricultural information to flow to and from five levels: Subject Matter Specialists, District Agricultural Extension Officers, Extension Agents, Contact Farmers, and Target Farmers, through the process of the Monthly Training, Fortnightly Training and extension agents’ Visits to farmers, it is necessary that the respondents of this study are drawn from every level mentioned above. Therefore, the data were gathered from 210 respondents including three SMS , four District Agricul – tural Extension Officers, seventy COF and one hundred farmers. Information wa
Scholarship Donor(s): Government of Federal Republic of Germany
Note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science
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