Participation in irrigation water management for agriculture: A case study of Pho Kao Ton Sub-District, Mueang District, LopBuri Province.

Abstract

This research aimed to study the level and relationships of personal factors, knowledge, attitude, satisfaction, and participation in irrigation management for agriculture:  A case study of Pho Kao Ton Sub-District, Mueang District, Lop Buri Province. Data were collected by questionnaires through 149 samples from farmers. The statics applied for describing the data percent, mean and followed Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient. The study results showed that the level of participation in irrigation management for agriculture falls in moderate divided into 1) participation in presentation ideas, planning, and decision making 2) participation in the operation, and implementation and 3) participation in monitoring and evaluation with the mean of 3.35, 3.28 and 3.13 respectively. The relationships of personal factors showed that gender, age, education level agricultural assembly area knowledge about water resource management were not correlated with the participation in irrigation water management for agriculture, but income, utilization of water resources attitude towards water resource management and satisfaction with water resource management were related to participation in irrigation water management for agriculture, significantly different at 0.01