Factors Influencing the Achievement of Agricultural Research Implementation, Chai Nat 2 Hybrid Sweet Corn Variety of the Department of Agriculture

Abstract

 The objectives of this research were to: (1) study the achievement level of agricultural research implementation, Hybrid Sweet Corn Variety,  Chai Nat 2 of the Department of Agriculture (2) study factors Influencing the achievement of agricultural research implementation of Chai Nat 2 (3) study on strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to the achievement agricultural research Implementation of Chai Nat 2 (4) recommend the guideline for enhancing the achievement of agricultural research implementation of Chai Nat 2.

This research was a survey research. Population consisted of 2 groups, (1) 41 officials working for hybrid sweet corn breeding and (2) 122 farmers used Chai Nat 2 Hybrid Sweet Corn seed. 93 samples were randomly selected from a group of farmer. The instrument in the research was the questionnaire. The statistics used for data analysis were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test and stepwise multiple regression analysis.

The results of this research revealed that (1) the achievement level of agricultural research implementation of Chai Nat 2 was more than or equal 70 percent (2) policy implementation factors ,public marketing factors ,internal motivation factors and external motivational factors influence on the achievement of agricultural research implementation of Chai Nat 2 showed highly statistically significant at the 0.05 (3) The strengthes are the Chai Nat 2 give big ear and high yield and the price of seed is very cheaper than the private sector. The weaknesses are the lack of public relation of the research thoroughly and the quality of the sweet corn is lower than hybrid sweet corn varieties that developed by private sector. For opportunity, there are many technologies can help disseminate the research and the government policies can encouraged the research to user. Threats of the research is market for Chai Nat 2 product is minimal (4) the guidelines for enhancing the achievement agricultural research implementation of Chai Nat 2 should be formulated the policy of agricultural research implementation to be concrete goals and objectives and to make a thorough policy knowledge to personnel , increasing the marketing channels to support farmers and creating motivation should as well be to change the values of the Department of Agriculture for higher achieving performance.