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Knowledge Management at the Village Level: How Thai Rice Farmers Incorporate Technologies to Improve Production Systems

South East Asian Journal of Management

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Title Knowledge Management at the Village Level: How Thai Rice Farmers Incorporate Technologies to Improve Production Systems
 
Creator Jude William R. Genilo; University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh
 
Subject Knowledge Management
 
Description The shift from agricultural to industrial and from industrial to knowledge societies has affected the ways farmers run their small-scale field activitiesin Central Thailand. To remain competitive, rice farmers need to continuously incorporate innovations and upgrade their technologies to sustain operations. These innovations and technologies may be seen inpractically all aspects of the rice production process – from seed selection to fertilization, from seed raising and growth to irrigation, from crop protection to harvesting, threshing and drying.The study basically aims to explore the plausibility of rice farming villages as “learning organizations” and within these villages, the viability of forming “communities of practice.” In so doing, it investigates how the rice farming village under study organizes, shares, moves and gains information on rice farming. The study was conducted in Baan Sap Som Boon, Nonglue Subdistrict, Muang District, Chainat Province. The study uses a qualitative, exploratory and descriptive design. It uses both primary and secondary data and an ethnographic study approach. Research method and techniques consist of review of materials, interview with key persons and farmers in the community, interview with government personnel and field observations. Data generation was conducted from October 2004 to July 2005 in Chainat Province, Thailand.
 
Publisher Department of Management, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Indonesia
 
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Date 2013-07-08
 
Type Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://journal.ui.ac.id/index.php/tseajm/article/view/1780
 
Source The South East Asian Journal of Management; Vol 1, No 1 (2007): April 2007; 27
 
Language en
 
Coverage South East Asia
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Thai Rice Farmers