Study on farmer’s economic status and acceptability of goat farm management technology: A case study in the lower central region and the upper southern region of Thailand
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The results showed that the most farmers were male (67.12%), age between 31 to 40 years old (72.03 %) and 51.81% had high school education status, and 57.63 %of farmers had an experience of about 5 to 10 years in raising goat. Most of the farmers had an average 76 goats/family; 89.37% of them raised semi-caged goat. About 63.45 % of the farmers did not receive consulting opportunity for farm management form experts.The total averaged income was 226,401 THB/year. About 86.77% of goat sales were made with dealers. The goat farm management transfer was accepted in level in terms of breed and breeding management (3.68); good level on farm management, feeding, housing, and sanitation (2.98, 3.25, 3.07, and 2.51), and medium level for marketing (2.46). In the SWOT analysis of goat farming, it was found that the sheep farming career was consistent with the way of life as well as religion and traditions of the Muslim community in the selected area as strengths; marketing problems due to lack of slaughterhouses, no clear market system, and only few marketing resources available were the weaknesses; creation of policy by the government agencies to develop a network of sheep and goat farmers as an opportunity; and lastly, smuggling from neighboring countries making the goat products vulnerable to disease control was an obstacle
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