Factors Influencing Use of Local Agricultural Knowledge and Wisdom to Strengthen Economic Community in Lower Northeastern, Thailand.

Abstract

This research aims to study factors influencing the use of local agricultural knowledge and wisdom to strengthen the economic community in the lower northeast.  Research is mixed method. The sample is the village master sufficiency 84th Anniversary Commemoration, year 2013. Northeast Region 3 provinces (Nakhon Phanom, Maha Sarakham and Surin). Informant is village elders who know cultural leaders, political leaders, youth leaders, president of group membership and community. The participants were 110 samples Statistical analysis is frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation t-test and ANOVA with LSD.  In hypothesis testing  at a significance level of 0.05 it  was found that the factor influencing the knowledge and wisdom of local agricultural knowledge the most to the next generation, followed by the solution of production, combining agriculture and technology, the solution from the market and adaptation of technologies. To strengthen economic community was found that the economic activity in the community, the ability to foster economic community, the allocation of economic resources and production and consumption in the community. Hypothesis tested by sex, age, marital status, education level, no different. By the time in the community and village levels of different economic model.