A STUDY OF ECONOMICS EXTENDING RESULT OF COMMUNITY BASED ON SUFFICIENCY ECONOMY IN WIHANDAENG DISTRICT, SARABURI PROVINCE

Abstract

The research objectives are: (1) to study the community operation, (2) to analyze community production economic on the factors, product, and the farming system of the community enterprise and the community capital, (3) to study community social conditions, the community relationship operation thinking and the way of the extending result sufficiency economy.

The research methods are: (1) to survey 100 samples as the demonstrative farms, the Sufficiency economy learning center at Ban Klong Huachang community, Aumphur Wihandaeng in Saraburi Province, (2) to analyzed the concept and agricultural production on sufficiency economy, (3) to evaluate the philosophy of sufficiency economy of the extending result in technology ,economic ,society ,environment, and mind. The questionnaire with the Likert Scale were used for data collection and analyzed with descriptive statistics.

The study found : (1) the farming system is a mixed farming of agricultures, fishery and husbandry, but emphasis on rice, horticulture, fishery and husbandry in different proportion depending on the land availability, (2) the most significant factors underlying the strength of participated farm communities include the people unity and the leadership of community leaders, followed by good cooperation spirits of member farmers, and (3) the extending result of economic technology, social resource and spirit expanding are the most significant factors underlying the strength of participated farm communities.

Suggestions: (1) the promotion of demonstrative farming model is a mixed farming of agricultures, community enterprises and agr-tourism, (2) the increasing factors attributable to the success of the farmers are the technical assistances provided by related government agencies. These include an introduction of the new cultural practices as well as appropriate technology. At the meantime, farmers mutual help and cooperation also enhance improving their occupation motivation, and (3) expanding and strengthening the public extension activities towards the advanced stage of development of the Sufficiency Economy using successful member-farmers as key catalysts.