A Model for Self Sufficiency Economy Development of Khumnuea Village, Huachang Sub-district,Jaturapakpimarn District, Roi-Ed Province

Abstract

The purposes of the research were to analyze current conditions, problems and needs for
self-sufficiency economy development of Khumnuea village, Huachang sub-district,
Jaturapakpimarn district, Roi-Ed province, 2) to design a model for Self Sufficiency Economy
Development of Khumnuea village, and to implement and evaluate the model. The research
methodology was divided into three phases. The data was collected by questionnaires and
analyzed by the computer program. MANOVA (Repeated Measures) was employed for
hypothesis testing. The study showed the primary data of Khumnuea village. There were 47
families in the village, most of people in the village were farmers. Most popular community
products were sausage, fermented beef, entrails sausage, and organic vegetables. The problems
of self-sufficiency economy development of Khumnuea village consisted of knowledge and
professional skills, government support, professional training, yearly drought, and capital.
The needs for self-sufficiency economy development of Khumnuea village included professional
training, knowledge of the self-sufficiency economy philosophy through study visit to farms of
organic vegetables, raising domestic chicken and ducts, raising pig, planting mushroom, raising
cow, cat fish and frogs. The model for self-sufficiency economy development of Khumnuea
village consisted of six activities : study visit to the best practice village/community, 2) frog farm
projects, 3)catfish farm project, 4) organic vegetables farm, 5) mushroom farm project, duck farm
project, and domestic chicken farm project. Finally, the findings indicated that the research
participants significantly earned more money than before using the model. Additionally, they
saved more money from buying consumer products than before using the model because they
grew their own organic vegetables and they raised their own animals