ห่วงโซ่อุทานข้าวอินทรีย์ในจังหวัดสุพรรณบุรี

Abstract

The study on Supply Chain of Organic Rice in Suphan Buri Province aimed at surveying the stakeholders in the supply chain of organic rice in Suphan Buri Province, which have been linked together from upstream, midstream, and downstream, and at analyzing the supply chain in terms of quantity, income/value received by the farmers. This study was based on the qualitative approach. The 4 groups of research population and the sample were Suphan Buri Organic Company Limited (Social Enterprise), Community Enterprise for the Promotion of Organic Farmers, Thung Thong Organic Community Enterprise, and Exported Organic Rice. The government sector, private sector, financial sector and educational institutes had cooperation to find out the development guideline of shifting the supply chain to be the value chain. The result indicated that the upstream in 4 groups included the farmers who sold the production factors, government sector, educational institutes, financial institutions, inspection agencies. The midstream stakeholders included the personal rice mills and community rice mills. The downstream stakeholders included the consumers who were the direct purchasers, retailers, wholesalers, farmers who purchased the rice seed, exporters, and community markets. From an analysis of the supply chain of organic rice in Suphan Buri Province in terms of quantity, income, and value received by farmers, the value of the whole supply chain was THB 6,608,100 with the average output per person of 34.2 tons/Rai/year, average production cost of THB 26.94/kilo, average selling price received by famers of THB 48.75-80/kilo, and average return received by farmers of THB 21.80-53/kilo. From the said results, it was suggested that the circular economy of organic rice in Suphan Buri Province should be studied.