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Rubber crop diversity and its influential factors in Thailand
Journal of Rubber Research ( IF 1.3 ) Pub Date : 2021-08-21 , DOI: 10.1007/s42464-021-00114-7
Sirimaporn Leepromrath 1 , Jing Zhu 1 , Jiajun Zhou 1 , Tianxiang Li 1 , De Zhou 2
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Thailand is the largest nature rubber exporter in the world. The rubber industry is particularly important for both the national economy and farmers. However, the increasing popularity of monoculture rubber plantation has posed challenges for the sustainable development of rubber industry due to the negative impacts of homogeneous cropping systems. Rubber crop diversity system is expected to alleviate the environment degradation and secure rubber farmers’ income. Nevertheless, the rubber diverse cropping systems adoption is more complicated for most rubber farmers in Thailand. Using the data on rubber farmers which cover 3344 observations from Office of Agricultural Economics in Thailand throughout the period of 2012–2014, this paper investigated the influential factors of rubber crop diversity adoption. The results indicate that rubber farmers are usually lack of management skills, information, and market access in crop diversity adoption. Adequate rainfall and water, household labour, land right certificate, land degradation, the use of organic fertilizer, crop sales channels and irrigation access have positive impacts on the adoption of rubber crop diversity. On the other hand, in the southern region, the hiring of foreign labours, agricultural training, off-farm work, male household heads as well as their age and education level are negatively associated with crop diversity adoption. According to the empirical results, it is necessary for rubber institutions to pay more attention to training programmes and education on rubber farmers’ diverse cropping system management skills. Moreover, rubber sustainable development strategies should offer rubber households additional incentives and financial support to relieve their financial constraints and improve the market accessibility. In addition, it is also necessary to focus on rubber households with poor natural resources and agricultural infrastructure and offer supports for infrastructure, such as irrigation systems, to increase rubber crop diversity adoption in Thailand.



中文翻译:

泰国橡胶作物多样性及其影响因素

泰国是世界上最大的天然橡胶出口国。橡胶工业对国民经济和农民都特别重要。然而,由于同种种植制度的负面影响,单一种植橡胶种植园的日益普及给橡胶工业的可持续发展带来了挑战。橡胶作物多样性体系有望缓解环境恶化,保障胶农收入。然而,对于泰国的大多数橡胶农来说,采用橡胶多样化种植系统更为复杂。本文利用泰国农业经济办公室 2012-2014 年 3344 次观察的橡胶农数据,研究了橡胶作物多样性采用的影响因素。结果表明,橡胶农通常缺乏采用作物多样性的管理技能、信息和市场准入。充足的降雨和水、家庭劳动力、土地权证、土地退化、有机肥的使用、作物销售渠道和灌溉渠道对橡胶作物多样性的采用具有积极影响。另一方面,在南部地区,雇佣外劳、农业培训、非农工作、男性户主以及他们的年龄和教育水平与作物多样性的采用呈负相关。根据实证结果,橡胶机构有必要更加重视对胶农多样化种植系统管理技能的培训和教育。此外,橡胶可持续发展战略应为橡胶农户提供额外的激励措施和资金支持,以缓解他们的财务压力,改善市场准入。此外,还需要关注自然资源和农业基础设施较差的橡胶家庭,并为灌溉系统等基础设施提供支持,以增加泰国橡胶作物多样性的采用。

更新日期:2021-08-23
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