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Title

The Development of Network in Phayao Sustainable Agriculture to the Community Innovation

Keywords

Agricultural sustainable,Phayao,Community,Innovation

Abstract

The research plan “The Development of Network in Phayao Sustainable Agriculture to the Community Innovation” is composed of 2 subprojects: The Development of Community Innovation with Organic Farming Knowledge of Network in Phayao Sustainable Agriculture, and The Development of Marketing for Organic Agricultural Product at the Community Level connecting the provincial and national networks of the Sustainable Agriculture Network in Phayao Province. This research aimed to upgrade the farmers, who were members of Phayao Sustainable Agriculture Confederation to become a model of a participatory organic agricultural innovative community. Knowledge sharing and learning from the upstream production to the market management was conducted in 10 selected organic plant production communities who were the members of Phayao Sustainable Agriculture Confederation. The selected target communities had to be the farmer groups with high potential, a good attitude, innovative ideas in organic agriculture, significant production capability, strong leadership, as well as readiness and commitment in regulating organic agricultural system for sustainability. Conventional wisdom that farmers already have combined knowledge in organic farming was applied through community participatory research process, by community researchers, who were both primary and co-researchers. The projects used participatory management, integrated design, planning, and searching for the best practices in plant production system including: organic rice and vegetable seed production, organic fertilizer production, vegetable-sprout production, integrated pest management, weed management, organic mushroom production, high GABA-germinated brown rice, and high GABA egg production. The knowledge and understanding gained by this research were a result of the innovations that solved the farmer’s problems in organic plant production, to produce better quality products. Distribution channels were developed in 5 targeted markets: local shops, schools, hospitals, restaurants, and hotels. There is significant potential in these organic agricultural products for exporting. Local innovators can be models of knowledge development and can thereby transfer these methods and techniques to others. Moreover, the economic impacts of the 10 innovative communities were studied.

The total value before this project started, and after the project was finished were 11,170,941 and 13,063,256 baht, respectively. This overall economic impact of 10 communities was a 16.94% increase in total value, while a measurement of social value after the project ended, showed that the return of investment 1 baht was 1.24 baht. This demonstrates that this investment was worth the initial cost. Stakeholders who were the local researchers, and the leaders from 10 communities, received the greatest and the least return from this project, which is 44.24% and 14.48% gain respectively.