Factor Influencing Farming System Transformation Process Analysis from Small Holding Rubber-based Farming System in Songkhla Province, The Southern, Thailand

Abstract

Following the economic crisis of 1997 in Thailand, rubber small holding farms were forced to adjust their farming strategies. The adjustment of rubber small holding farms involved many aspects of the bio-physical and socio-economic attributes of farms. The result indicated that trend and development of small holding rubber-fruit tree farming system (R4) and small holding rubber-integrated farming system will be relatively well known and extensively discussed in recent years due to high opportunity inchange from other small holding types to these types and also founded that two main factors were identified influence household income of small holding rubber-based farms namely accessibility to sources of information (AIN) and small holders participation through group activity (PIG).