Conclusion CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION

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CHAPTER 5. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION

5.1 Conclusion

1. Ratchaburi province covered by mountain and forest that has height 200-300 meters above sea level. The average of maximum temperature was 36.10 C while the average of minimum temperature was 21.40C. The precipitation and relative humidity was 84.3 mm and 71.3 respectively. The main river for irrigation in Ratchaburi is Mae Klong River. Ratchaburi agriculture total area around 364,374 acres which 45.5 was very appropriate for rice cultivation, 36.5 was moderate appropriate for rice cultivation. Based on that amount, Chedi Hak Sub district has 7,093 acres of agricultural area which 13.1 is very appropriate for rice cultivation, while 86.4 was moderately appropriate. 2. This study was describe mainly based on a progressive farmer experience in adopting IPM in this study. The farmer was 56 years old and has been work as rice farmer more than 20 years. He manage 23 rais of rice farm which was rented land. There are two kinds of media perception including personal media and interactive media on IPM information provider. In his farm, he used Suphan cultivar which was produced in the local area. There are three kind of fertilizer that has been used including 46-0-0, 16-20-0, and 0-0-60. He did not used chemical substance on pest control but he used Trichoderma as biological control. Machinery was used in the land preparation, planting stage, and harvesting. He was belonging on cooperatives, BAAC, and farmer’s group. His farm income was 60,000 THB while his non farm income around 100,000 THB. 3. The farmer has known 23 sub items from 28 sub items or 82 of the IPM technology including prevention, identification, monitoring, pest control action, and evaluation. Farmer has positive attitude on IPM model. The progressive farmer has been agree with 21 sub items or 75 of total sub items. The farmer has been practices 22 sub items of IPM technology. while 67 in the comparison of knowledge and practices, farmer has been know mostly of the IPM technique but not all of the stage has been practices. 4. There are some factors affecting in adoption of IPM technology including personal background age, education, experienced, and number of group belonging, input used factor biological control availability, and chemicals substance availability, physical factors water resources and soil suitability for rice, biological factors pest, disease, and weed, social factor IPM training and number of group belonging, economic factor farm income, institutional factor number of extension service and quality of service, and psychological factor knowledges, attitudes, and practices. 5. There are some main constraint in adoption of IPM technology including complexity of IPM technology, weak perception of IPM technology, labor intensive, easy access of pesticide, lack awareness of pollution, and weed problem. although farmer already joined in the IPM training in terms of farmer field school FFS but majority of farmers still used large amount of pesticide. The main problem is the complexity of IPM technique that difficult to adopt by farmers.

5.2 Recommendation