Abstract:
The purposes of this study were to examine opinions among agriculturalists towards factors affecting buying decision of organic agricultural products, Micro Farm Company and to compare their level of opinions as classified by gender age, educational level, and amount of income. The data were collected from 384 agriculturalists who had decided to buy organic agricultural products, Micro Farm Company. They were recruited by Yamanes formula (1973). The test of t-test was administered to compare the differences between independent variables with two groups; and the test of One-way ANOVA was used to compare the differences among independent variables with three groups onwards. The results of this study revealed that the level of opinions among agriculturalists towards factors affecting buying decision of organic agricultural products, Micro Farm Company was found at a high level. When considering each detail, it could be concluded the factor in relation to marketing promotion was rated at the highest level, followed by the factors relating to price, product, and channel of distribution, respectively. All of these factors were rated at the highest level. In addition, based on the results from the test of hypotheses, it was shown that there were no statistically significant differences in the level of opinions towards factors affecting buying decision of organic agricultural products, Micro Farm Company among the subjects with different gender, age, and monthly income. The hypotheses were rejected. Finally, a statistically significant difference was found in the level of opinions towards factors affecting buying decision of organic agricultural products, Micro Farm Company among the subjects with different educational background. The hypothesis was accepted.