Rubber Farmers’ Risk Perception in Southern Thailand

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Published: Dec 5, 2019
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Risk Perception Farmer Rubber Farming System

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Onanong Longpichai
สาขาวิชาเศรษฐศาสตร์เกษตร คณะเศรษฐศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยสงขลานครินทร์
Chaiya Kongmanee

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This study aimed to classify rubber farming systems and explore farmers’ risk perception among them. Sources of risk were identified. Primary data were collected from 400 farm households using a structured questionnaire. Descriptive statistics and factor analysis were used to analyze the data. The results indicated that rubber farms in Southern part of Thailand were categorized into 5 groups: small family rubber farm, medium-sized family rubber farm enterprise, small patronal farm, very small family rubber farm and diversified rubber-based farming farm. The result of risk perception analysis revealed that, on overview, the risk originated from the decrease of rubber price was perceived as the most important risk for all types of farms except the medium-sized family rubber farm enterprise, in which the focus was on risks originated by RRIM 600 clone. The analysis result on type of risk revealed nine categories of risk types, which are climate and natural disaster, financial, government policy/institution, market, household, labor, production, land, and price risks.

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Longpichai, O., & Kongmanee, C. (2019). Rubber Farmers’ Risk Perception in Southern Thailand. Parichart Journal, 32(2), 134–146. Retrieved from https://so05.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/parichartjournal/article/view/138003
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Vol. 32 No. 2 (2019): July - December 2019
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Research Articles

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