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A Study of Wakyu Beef Cattle Farming Conditions of Communities in Nakornchaiburin Province Group.

EasyChair Preprint 4736

3 pagesDate: December 11, 2020

Abstract

This research aimed to study the fundamental information on social aspects, economic aspects, farming conditions, and problems in raising cattle of Wagyu breed in community enterprises in Nakornchaiburin province group. The samples used in the study were 11 community enterprises that raised Wagyu cattle. The researchers used questionnaires to collect information. The statistics used for data analysis were frequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation.

The research results showed that most of the farmers were male, with a percentage of 68.55%, while 31.50% of the farmers were female. The average age of the farmer was 55.89 years old. Most farmers had a primary education level (65.63%) with average family members of 4.04 people. Almost all of the farmers, 98.67%, grew rice as their main occupation, which has an average tendency of raising Wagyu cattle was at 4.09. The average income of the farmers was 111,920.12 baht/year. An average agricultural area was 10.18 rai. Most farmers raised and fattened cattle of Wagyu breed to be ready for a sale (81.92%), using the caged farming method (80.27%). All farmers (100%) encountered high food costs and cattle disease issues.

Keyphrases: Farming Conditions, Nakhonchaiburin, Wagyu, beef cattle, community enterprise

BibTeX entry
BibTeX does not have the right entry for preprints. This is a hack for producing the correct reference:
@booklet{EasyChair:4736,
  author    = {Pipat Wongsawat and Paphakorn Pitayachaval},
  title     = {A Study of Wakyu Beef Cattle Farming Conditions of Communities in Nakornchaiburin Province Group.},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 4736},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2020}}
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