SATI (smarter agriculture Thai initiative) : a smarter organic farming model for Thai farmers

Name: Kanphattasinee Sisang

keyword: Smart farmer

; Community-based

; Agroforestry

; Poverty-reduction

; Bio-friendly agriculture

Abstract: Agriculture has played a significant role as a major driver of the Thai economy for many generations. Thailand 4.0 and its Agriculture 4.0 aims to proactively increase: the country’s economic prosperity, its social well-being, raising its human values and educational provisions, and enhancing its environmental protection. With that in mind, the present research then was carried out through identifying a number of existing and future risks that Thai farmers and the communities that they live in face before developing the “Smarter Agriculture Thai Initiative (SATI)”, a practical and innovative model in which benefits and risks are critically assessed in order to help improve the wellbeing of farmers and their families. The proposed SATI model is created in this research by merging hard-earned wisdom and insights with cutting-edge knowledge from literature, critically analysing the existing successful agricultural business models and combining their key success and studying their lessons learned together with qualitative and quantitative approaches undertaken through in-depth interviews and online survey. Additionally, some of measure proposed in this model help address climate change challenges in relation to the carbon emissions in farming activities. The findings of this research indicate the barriers and challenges that exist with regard to adopting smarter organic approaches and the motivational factors that can encourage its more widespread adoption. The outcome is the SATI model which would enable, after an initial period of investment, the creation of an inclusive self-funding organic growth initiative that actively shares specialist and intergenerational knowledge and skills, while combining together aspects of smart farming, organic farming, and agroforestry with cluster growth and the appropriate adoption of bio-friendly high-tech and low-tech technologies and approaches to revitalise Thai agriculture and rural communities. The ethically-driven SATI model is more inclusive than standard smart farming solutions which typically focus on younger generation farmers, and is designed and developed on the three pillars of sustainability: People, Planet and Profit. Furthermore, the SATI model suggests how through the selective use of appropriate technological and development management strategies, rural communities could become revitalised as sustainable bio-friendly growth hubs in their own right

Thammasat University. Thammasat University Library

Address: BANGKOK

Email: preserv@tu.ac.th

Name: Jamieson, Isaac Adam

Role: advisor

Created: 2019

Modified: 2022-09-27

Issued: 2022-09-27

วิทยานิพนธ์/Thesis

application/pdf

DOI: 10.14457/TU.the.2019.1159

eng

DegreeName: Master of Science

Level: Master's Degree

Descipline: Design, Business and Technology Management

Grantor: Thammasat University

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