| dc.description.abstract | This research aims to study general condition of pig farming using the sufficiency of
local cereal to feed the pig in Nakhon Pathom Province, and to analyze the cost efficiency in
feeding the pig by local cereal in Nakhon Pathom Province according to the self-efficiency
economy philosophy. The research is conducted by collecting primary data through the interviews
of 30 households, which run the pig farm with self-sufficiency economy philosophy in Mueang
Nakhon Pathom District and Kampheang San District, Nakhon Pathong Province.
The findings reveal that most of the farmers who run the pig farm are male in the
working age, and have an experience in running the pig farm for 6-10 years. The farms are run
independently without being under any agricultural institute by the farmer’s own capital. The
farms are run in a form of self-owned business, which implies that the farmers were expertise in
pig farming. Total Mixed Ration (TMR) mixed with local cereal is used to feed the pigs. It is
considered that farmers have applied the self-sufficiency way by utilizing local ecology in pig
farming in order to reduce production cost. They are able to reduce the cost in pig farming by
feeding the pigs with local cereal to substitute the cost of animal feeds, which equals to 3,000 –
6,000 Baht per month. Mostly the number of pigs in a farm is 10-20 pigs. The average time of
raising the pigs is 4 months. The pigs can be sold when they weight 91-100 kilograms. In addition,
it is found that the farmers understand the self-sufficiency economy philosophy well, as it can be
seen that they can apply the philosophy in their life very well causing reduced operation cost in
pig farming. In addition, in term of cost efficiency, comparison between feeding the pigs with
Total Mixed Ration (TMR), Broken Milled Rice, and Bran and feeding the pigs with local cereal,
shows that to feed with the local cereal can save the cost by 30%. However, this way of pig
feeding will cause difficulty in large-scale pig farming, as it would be difficult to harvest or
procure large amount of the local cereal on time. Therefore most cost in pig farming is still the
cost of broken milled rice and bran. | en_US |
