Motivation and Efficiency of Local Paddy Cultivation in Nakhon Si Thammarat Province
Keywords:
Production efficiency of local paddy, Factors Influencing efficiency, Nakhon Si Thammarat provinceAbstract
This research aimed at analyzing: 1) factors influencing decision-making in local paddy cultivation; and 2) The technical efficiency of local paddy cultivation. The research used the case study in Ban Perng Subdistrict, Tha Phaya Subdistrict, Khanabnak Subdistrict, and Pak Praek Subdistrict of Pak Phanang District, Nakhon Si Thammarat Province during the crop year of 2015/2016. A sequential mixed-method strategy, including qualitative analysis of in-depth interviews with 14 households and two focus groups, and quantitative analysis of a questionnaire survey with 185 households, was applied to find out factors influencing decision-making in cultivation. In addition, the stochastic production frontier analysis was adopted for production efficiency analysis by using data derived from questionnaire survey of 206 paddy plots. The results reveal that: 1) the decision to cultivate local paddy was determined by the the following key factors includings ; (1) expectations to obtain rice for household consumption and profit from production; (2) household assets consisting of natural resources (water supply and land topography), human resources (household labor and their knowledge and skills), land ownership, savings for investment, and household network and communication; (3) risk and trend faced by households of pests and price trend; and (4) infrastructure consisting of transportation and irrigation systems; and 2) in terms of production efficiency, the results indicated that the majority of the samples expressed low level of technical production efficiency. Moreover, the results from the inefficiency analysis point out a combination of factors that increased the likelihood of inefficiency including: (1) household characteristics (household with younger and lower educational level of the head of household, and lower number of agricultural labors); and (2) the less motivation of local paddy cultivation for commercial purpose (households with smaller rental land area for agriculture and larger land area for local paddy cultivation).
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