Empowering Innovation of Non-toxic Products : Morkang-Thong Village

Abstract

          This study; " Empowering Innovation of non-toxic products: Morkang-Thong village" base on research and implementation of community development projects. The objectives of this study are 1) to collective community information and explore the need for creating processed products and 2) to organize a participatory operational training process under the SDGs Sustainable Development and 3P Principles on Social Entrepreneurship as a result does not cause any impact on society, community and environment but generate income. Data collection was conducted in both qualitative and quantitative formats with both participatory and non-participatory observations, in-depth interviews, focus group interviews, brainstorming and online questionnaires via Google Form. The sample group is Mor-kang Thong villager by purpose collecting with the volunteers who were interview and join the activities with the project. The quantitative data analyzed by descriptive statistics while the qualitative data was classified, analyzed data content and reported by the objective items. The results from collecting community data and conducting 2 training programs for non-toxic products generated in 2 community product innovations:1) baked banana with butter and banana with cheese powder and 2) herbal compress which the main basic ingredients from the community area. Therefore, the investment is very low, but the products are attractive and popular in the market. By virtue of the satisfaction survey in the training activities, all participants were satisfied at the highest level in both training activities.