Agricultural Resource Management Model For Sustainable Tourism By The Community

Abstract

Agriculture is the main occupation of the people in Thailand. Exploitation and semi-monopoly in agriculture making Thai farmers at disadvantage. Agricultural resource optimization, especially agricultural resource management for tourism, therefore, it is alternatives to develop farmers. The purpose of this research were 1) to study the agricultural resource management for tourism, 2) to develop the agricultural resource management model for tourism, and 3) to assess the agricultural resource management model for sustainable community-based tourism by using focus group discussion and spiral model theory, content analysis, select sample groups with snowball sampling technique, focusing on operations in the project's area of ​​"farming in 1 Rai, receive one hundred thousand", at Klong Din Dang Reservoir, Khao Phra Subdistrict, Phipun District, Nakhon Si Thammarat Province.

            The results found that farmers manage agricultural resources according to the Sufficiency Economy Philosophy by using integrated farming that comprises rice farming, planting plants, vegetables, fruits on farm dike and raising fish. From welcoming tourists who want to study integrated farming has developed the agricultural resource management model as applied house model (agricultural way of following the king's footsteps) with 3 pillars (Sao): Sao Phosop, Sao Matcha, and Sao Warin. The agricultural resource management model as applied house model caused by applying wisdom to the agricultural and natural resources of the community with prolonging the principles of adaptation, flexibility, softening and diversification of agricultural resource management, accommodating tourists to visit and listen to lectures on agricultural resource management as applied houses, visit fish fitness innovations, rice farming by using fish to help, morning glory farming, baby fish farming and periwinkle farming by open to visit project of "farming in 1 Rai, receive one hundred thousand" located nearby Khlong Din Daeng Reservoir, Phipun District.