The Development of Curriculum to Improvement of Agricultural Products in The Communities for Food Safety System under Community Participation

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to develop the curriculum and study effect of “Developing and upgrading pomelo to food safety standards” promote food security and safety in community under community participation. The research process consisted of 3 stages: 1) Plan and Curriculum development: search the partner and network, and curriculum development, 2) Workshop and Action: training, assessment and follow-up training, and 3) Curriculum Evaluation. Data collection employed qualitative approach using in-depth interviews with key informants, document analysis and survey agricultural area and quantitative approach using questionnaires on satisfaction attitude with 25 trained farmers in Ban Thaen, and the reflection after training with network partners. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics including mean and standard deviation.

            The results were as follows: Creating a curriculum under Community Participation, the course consists of main topics; 1) the growing organic pomelo, and 2) guidelines for driving and connecting the network of food safety marketing channels, activities; participatory training workshops and discussions focused on the implementation, and evaluation and monitoring. The practical training results showed that: the overall satisfaction of the farmers toward the of trainees with the training process were at the highest level. The evaluation and monitoring found that after the training, farmers can bring their knowledge and experience gained to grow pomelo in their own land. The reflection found that the involvement and roles of various sectors to promote the organic pomelo for food security and safety in community are necessary in order to create food security and safety.