Factors influencing participation in collective marketing through organic rice farmer groups in northeast Thailand.

ABSTRACT: Despite the significant roles of farmer groups in collective action for production and marketing of organic paddy, limited literature has studied the farmer-level determinants of participation in collective action in northeast Thailand. This study examined factors associated with participation in collective marketing for three organic rice farmer groups (Nam Om Community Enterprise Network, Na So Farmer Group, and Moral Rice Farmer Group) in Yasothon Province of Thailand, producing organic jasmine rice for export and domestic markets through contract farming. Primary data were collected from 335 farmers and analyzed by descriptive statistics and the two-limit tobit regression method. The descriptive results showed relatively high levels of social, economic, institutional, and environmental

SUBMITTER: Methamontri Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9668679 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature