Development of Safe Agricultural Products of Santi Suk District, Nan Province

Abstract

The purposes of this research article were 1) to study the safe agricultural products of  Santi Suk District, Nan Province; 2) to develop safe agricultural products of Santi Suk District, Nan Province; 3) to study ways to raise the level of safe agricultural products of Santi Suk District, Nan Province for a guideline to promote for the community to benefit in the future. The population and sample of study focused on the target group of Wat Pong Kham community enterprises and a group of experts, a group of manufacturers and a group of buyers. The results showed that 1) agricultural products of Santi Suk District were divided into 3 forms: 1.1) agricultural products were wax gourd, pumpkin, garlic, sticky rice, riceberry, banana. ginger, galangal, lemongrass, kale, etc.; 1.2) wicker basketry products were agricultural tools such as baskets, round bamboo basket, etc., household tools such as sticky rice baskets etc., animal catching tools such as fish traps (lob), bamboo fish traps (sai), coop-like trap for catching fish (sum), etc.; 1.3) processing products were sweet banana crisps, baked bananas with herbs, rice crackers, three flavours of ginger, bamboo green soap, etc.; 2) in terms of agricultural product development process, it was found that farmers participated in the establishment of a community enterprise group covering all 3 sub-districts, namely the animal husbandry group, fruit and vegetable group and processing group. For sale, farmers brought their products to sell to the group with the Wat Pong Kham Community Learning Foundation as a model of management; and 3) in terms of guidelines for upgrading agricultural products, it was found that community enterprises should raise knowledge and create new knowledge from experiments and research, integrate with the practice of new agricultural theory, process agricultural products according to market demand, upgrade products with innovation and food production technology that had product development guidelines consisting of 3.1) having a story or origin of the product; 3.2) standardized production process; 3.3) having a product quality certification mark; 3.4) having a production process that was environmentally friendly, focusing on organic agriculture, integrating the group's "truth" principle, and 3.5) having a main market to support product orders regularly that was not a market fair or event provided by the agency.