Managerial Administration of Farming Machinery for Rice Production
Abstract
Problem statement: This research was conducted due to an increase of agricultural machinery cost for rice production (46.00%) of farmers in Phichit province. Based on an analysis of cost reduction using the method of John Deere, it was found that this may decrease from 46.00-28.50% of the total cost. Thus, there was a question how to mange the agricultural machinery. The objective of this research was to investigate the pattern of managerial administration of farming machinery for rice production, Phichit province. Approach: Research methodology in this research had many steps: In-depth interview with rice farmer members and farmer institution executives having good practice; an analysis of internal and external factors concerning about the managerial administration of rice farmer group; public hearing forum of stakeholders on rice farmer group management and the investigation of decision-making on the selection of management strategies. Descriptive statistics and Pearson co-efficient relation were used in this research. Results: Findings showed that there were four models of the managerial administration of agricultural machinery as follows: External hiring, co-investment, networking and participatory maintenance. For the management of farmer group, it should be in the form of networking connecting each sub-group. Also, it should have a coordination center for the planning of agricultural machinery, capital and welfare management. The management was dependent on three groups of strategies: (1) strategy a-the improvement of the managerial administration structure and grouping concept base; (2) strategy b-the development of potential and quality of the managerial administration and (3) strategy c-the creation of atmosphere in the participatory managerial administration of agricultural machinery, respectively. Conclusion: The implementation based on this model caused the farmers have confidence, unity and systematic working and power on the persuasions for group activity participation more than ever.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/erjsp.2010.51.54
Copyright: © 2010 Yosphatrachai Phuangpee and Pradtana Yossuck. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Keywords
- Management
- farming machinery
- rice production