การสร้างนวัตกรรมชุมชนเพื่อพัฒนาเศรษฐกิจฐานราก และบรรเทาผลกระทบจากโควิด 19 พื้นที่จังหวัดสกลนคร

Title

Creating community innovations for local economy development, and mitigation from Covid 19 in the area of Sakon Nakhon province

Keywords

agricultural innovation,foundation economy,creative community inovation

Abstract

Wanonniwat and Banmuang District Sakon Nakhon Province are Thailand ‘s the poorest and the lowest income. Because geographical structure such as water is surface and ground with Lateral soil and also brine. Therefore, agricultural product is lower than other area in Sakon Nakhon province. Moreover, the price of agricultural products is down and the sales are dropped around 50 percent after spread of Covid-19.Some of the farmers lacked income from their children who went to work abroad. Because they lost their jobs and those people returned home and lost their income, lack of employment. For the way to solve these problem, the research focus on create community innovation such as, soil improvement innovation, innovation in water management, innovation to create added value in indigo products, innovation to create value in herbal products, innovation to create added value in vegetables and innovation to create a family economic forest in order to create added value local economy by developing farmers to produce quality raw materials in the supply chain (supply chain) enter the value chain (Value chain) to get quality products from upstream, mid-stream to the destination. The research project has designed a process that will be used to develop farmers with the knowledge of the researchers in each sub-project. The way to do it and change farmers minds, follow along and creating village researchers to be researchers in solving poverty problems and their own debts were used. The results found that accurate scientific, research and innovation knowledge such as, soil improvement, water management, species selection plot management, proper care and harvesting of crops according to standards, were used in order to help solve problems farmers. The increase the quality and quantity of output and bring to the added value of agricultural products were obtained. For example, the herb Andrographis Paniculata obtained andrographolide to 4-6% by weight. As a result of this development, it has an increase in value from 40-50 baht per kilogram to 150-750 baht. This research process can increase the production of indigo and indigo meat up to 2 times more than before development. Vegetables were easy to sell. They were in demand in the market even when faced with the crisis from the Covid-19 epidemic. In addition to developing upstream to quality, research projects were also being developed in the midstream and downstream by focusing on production, processing products to meet market demands and standards. Moreover, farmers have evolved from producers to sellers both online and on-site. Innovative communication project implementation has been developed. As a result, the project became known, perceived to the general public and network partners leading to a well-known product which had more distribution channels. Moreover, the target farmers in Wanon Niwat and Ban Muang districts of Sakon Nakhon province gained a monthly increase of 7,558.28 THB, an increase of 123.18%. The average monthly income before joining the project was 6,136.03 THB, however, at the end of the project, the average income was 13,694.31 THB. Increased income in target farmers is due to the cost reduction in cultivation, by knowing soil improvement techniques which resulted in reducing the cost by 13,500 THB per rai. The production cost was also reduced to 100%, further increasing the monthly income. In addition, five different solar-cell-based water pumping systems were developed to be used in four agricultural plots. Each system costs around 50,000 THB to develop. This cost included the digging of a 5-inch diameter well, with a 50-meter depth, a DC brushless pumping system, a 2,000 liter-PVC water tank, a pump controlling kit, wires, 1.5 inches pipe with 2-inch output pipe. The break-even point of this investment was 1.2 years.