COMMERCIAL COMMUNITY RESOURCES MANAGEMENT OF RICE AGRICULTURAL GROUP, MAETHA DISTRICT, LAMPANG PROVINEC

Abstract

               This research aims to study the level of awareness perception commercial values of community resources of rice agriculturist group, the participation levels of the rice agriculturist group in managing commercial community resources and guidelines to manage commercial community resources appropriately for rice agriculturist group, Mae Tha district, Lampang province. The research population sampling of 397 rice agriculturist group, data collection were questionnaire and interview form including the interview method,focus group,researchers’field observation and participatory observation. Descriptive statistics were used to describe the characteristics of the studied data consisted of frequencies, percentage and means
                 The research found that most of the respondents were female aged between 51-60 years old, married with educational level of primary school, there were perception levels of community resources commercial value of the rice agriculturist group in 3 sides consisted of 1) perception the levels of biological value of commercial community resources 2) perception of the levels of physical value of commercial community resources and 3) perception levels of the value of community resources created by their own, in overall picture was at a high level. The results of the study of the participatory levels of the rice agriculturist group in commercial community resources management was at the high level with the appropriate ways of managing community resources commercially for rice agriculturist group as follows: there should be constant agriculturist use of land in every production season without leaving land unused because other agriculturistl activities apart from rice cultivation bring important incomes for the family and community; let the villagers manage themselves to have the ownership of the community resources by promoting well-managed community organization efficiently and the community should be independent to use the community resources, including allowing everyone in community to participate in creating community resources management idealism by raising the stability in various sides of family, happiness, good relationship with others as the idealism in caring, conserving and managing community resources through important factors of preparation and behavior modification, communication, learning process and tools, measurement and praise then awards them.