Abstract:
The purposes of this research were to study the level of participation of the agricultural cooperative members in Krabi Province, to compare the participation of agricultural cooperative member and personal factors and to examine the barriers that influenced to the agriculture cooperative members. The questionnaires were completed by 386 agricultural cooperative members from the benchmark cooperative 2008 in Krabi. The statistics used for data analysis were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test and F-test.
The results of this study indicated that most of the members who answered the questionnaires were males, aged between 41 - 50 years, Buddhist, primary education, main occupations were in agriculture, average monthly household incomes were over 50,000 baht member of more than nine years long. The Level of participation of cooperative members was average in overall, after considering the aspects in order; found that the benefit of participation level was high, operation, decision making and evaluation in average respectively. The comparison between the level of participation of the agricultural cooperatives members and personal factors ; sex, educational background ,average monthly household incomes found that the level of participation of the agricultural cooperatives members were significantly different at the level of 0.05, on the other hand, age, religious, occupation, length of membership were not different in the level of participation.