THE EFFECT AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF WET - DRY CYCLES FARMING IN ORDER TO COPE WITH CLIMATE OF FARMERS IN SRIPRACHAN DISRICT SUPHANBURI PROVINE

Abstract

          The Objectives of this research article were to study the effect and acknowledgement of farmers in Sri - Prachan District, Suphan - Buri Province towards wet - dry cycles farming in order to cope with climate changes using quantitative research method. Questionnaire was applied to collect data from 150 sample farmers. Its data analysis was separated into two parts including mean average analysis and standard deviation so as to analyze social and economic data status of the sample group. We had applied multiple linear regression to study different factors of farmers’ acknowledgement towards the effect and acceptance of wet - dry cycles farming. Our findings revealed that farmers using wet - dry cycles farming in Sri Prachan District had perceived the environmental effects the most, and their perceived innovation was acknowledgement process in term of applicable ability. Further to factors of acknowledgement towards climate change effect and perception process influencing wet - dry cycles farming, they were separated into 1) factors of perception towards effects of wet - dry cycles farming including economic factor with statistics significance at .05, and 2) factors of acknowledgement influencing wet - dry cycles farming was non - complexity of the innovation with statistics significance at .05.