Needs for processing career promotion course to add value for freshwater fish farmers in Nakhon Sawan Province.
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Results revealed that the respondents needed training courses for fish crackers, dried fish strips, sour pickled fish, fish sausage, and fermented fish. They needed a 1-2 days training course at the training place in the village during the off-season for rice growing. The participants should be around 21-30 persons and the training program that informed at least one week in advance. Training activities should focus on actual practice (91.50%) and the training organizer must be responsible for expenses (99.02%). Each time of the training should have only one topic ( = 3.55; S.D = 1.08). Assessment through observation during the training should be done ( = = 3.77; S.D. = 0.58) and assessment after the training must be conducted ( =3.75, S.D. = 0.79), For the training session, it should include demonstration ( = 4.23, S.D. = 0.67) actual practice ( = 4.40, S.D. = 0.61) and diverse use of media ( = 4.29, S.D. = 0.68). According to the comparison, there was a statistical difference between the needs for training and the socio-economic attributes of the respondents. The latter included sex, educational attainment, farmer group membership, number of household labor, and debts or sources of loans. A training course for value-added processing of freshwater fish has tended to develop for future training sessions with farmers.
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