The Foundational Community Management Based on Organic Agriculture to Raise the Quality of the Community Economy in on Klang Subdistrict, Mae on District, Chiang Mai Province

Abstract

This article aims to 1) to study community management based on organic agriculture for the area to support economic development by applying the Sufficiency Economy Philosophy in accordance with university and national strategies; Agriculture, bringing benefits to the community through integration with business law education; and 3) to suggest ways to extend agriculture to commercialization. It is a mixed research between qualitative and quantitative research methods, divided into 3 phases in the implementation. These include phase 1 planning and preliminary surveys, phase 2 data and knowledge sets, and phase 3 integration and extension. The population and sampling of 12 people can be classified into 6 groups: 1) the sample from government agencies / related organizations 2) the sample from the private sector, foundations, associations, 3) the sample from academic experts, 4) farmers samples, 5) entrepreneur samples, and 6) consumer samples.

From the research findings, it was found that 1) the analysis according to the 9-step staircase theory, On Klang subdistrict is in group 1 and group 2 and is in the process of group 3 of the step 8, which is to sell in order to be able to generate more income for local people sustainable farming based on generosity to be the base of the community economy creating a market and developing a network of organic farms in the area applying principles of community management based on organic agriculture that are suitable for the area or local agencies that lead to plans to promote and support research academic service in agriculture under the BCG Model 2) successful factors leading to a sustainable community according to the Sufficiency Economy Philosophy the most correlated factor between the 9-step staircase theory was that the overall geo-social characteristics of the community were related to agribusiness. Bringing benefits to the community through integration with the teaching of business law, which can be regarded as leading to a sustainable community according to the philosophy of sufficiency economy. Sustainable on the basis of generosity to be the community economic base (step 8) of selling or extending agriculture to commercialization through a new generation of farmers' networks, but relying on external factors to a minimum to find ways to prevent exponentially expanding the city.