Database Development for Rice Production and Cost Reduction Guidelines in Sankhaburi District, Chai Nat Province

Abstract

          The objectives of this study were 1) to study the production processes, production costs, and rice yields of farmers in Sankhaburi District, Chai Nat Province, 2) to develop a database of rice production of farmers in Sankhaburi District, Chai Nat Province, and 3) to study problems of rice production and reducing rice production costs guidelines for farmers in Sankhaburi District, Chai Nat Province. The sample was 240 farmers in Sankhaburi District, Chai Nat Province, selected by purposive sampling. Questionnaires, individual interviews, focus group interviews, and field trip data were used to collect data. The statistics used to analyze the data were descriptive statistics, including percentage, mean, and standard deviation.
          The results of the study showed that 1) In terms of the production process, most of the farmers in the Sankhaburi area farmed by the water-sowing method, most had rice production costs between 3,001– 4,000 baht per rai, and most of their yields were between 701 – 800 kg per rai, 2) Rice production database development, PHP, HTML, and JavaScript programming language using MySQL were used as a database which is responsible for various operations such as data adding, data editing, data viewing, Data deleting, data searching, and data downloading, as well as 3) In terms of local farmers' problems were natural disasters, high production costs, unstable rice prices, and monocultures. The solution to these problems was to create knowledge of new farming plans, marketing, and production costing.