Guidelines for Developing Agricultural Technology and Innovation for Goat Farmers in Large-scale Community Enterprises at Pak Phanang River Basin

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to study development guidelines and to transfer the knowledge to drive agricultural technology and innovation for goat farmers in large community enterprises at the Pak Phanang Basin, Nakhon Si Thammarat Province to develop a smart farmer model. The population in the research included the chair, vice president, and committee members who were entrepreneurs. They were the members of goat farmers of large farm community enterprises at Pak Phanang River Basin in Nakhon Si Thammarat Province in 2022. The sample group of 65 participants were purposively selected from 110 population. The data were collected by questionnaires and analysed by mean and SD.

The results were as follows: 1) the guidelines for developing the agricultural technology and innovation center of goat farmers of large farm community enterprises at Pak Phanang River Basin in Nakhon Si Thammarat showed the highest needs on communication development with the following aspects. 1.1) On the data collection process, there should be technology base to develop goat production process. 1.2) On the communication aspect, the focus should be on developing appropriate technology for information transfer to increase production efficiency and cost reduction. 1.3) On the analysis and prediction aspect, there should be an expansion of development and modification of machinery from agricultural machinery wisdom to reduce human labour in particular for small farms. Finally, 1.4) on the aspect of decision-making systems, there should be a development on market connections to enable farmers to sell through e-commerce. 2) The guidelines of knowledge transfer to drive agricultural technology and innovation of goat farmers of large farm community enterprises at Pak Phanang River Basin in Nakhon Si Thammarat included livestock husbandry technology (reskill and upskill) at the highest level.