Utilization and Needs for Development Peduncle's Sugar Palm (Arenga pinnata Werr.) Product of Community Enterprises Borsaen Subdistrict, Thapput District, Phangnga Province

Abstract

The objectives of this research were to study the utilization of peduncle's sugar palm (Arenga pinnata Werr.) and needs for development peduncle's sugar palm (Arenga pinnata Werr.) product of Borsaen’ s famers community enterprises. To study the utilization of peduncle's sugar palm (Arenga pinnata Werr.), it was selected the sample of 13  Borsaen’ s famers community enterprises. To study needs for development Peduncle's sugar palm (Arenga pinnata Werr.), they were selected sample of 19 Borsaen’ s famers community enterprises and 66 customers of Borsaen’ s famers community enterprises. The research instruments were questionnaires and indepth interviews. Descriptive statistics used to analyze data were mean and standard deviation, and inferential statistics were independent t –test and One-Way ANOVA. In case of significant differences were at 0.05 level, a pairwise comparison using the LSD test was employed. The results showed that utilization of peduncle's sugar palm (Arenga pinnata Werr.) can be used for product development and livestock. The needs of samples for development of peduncle's sugar palm (Arenga pinnata Werr.) to cloth bags. Since there was a production possibility (  = 4.06, SD = 0.78), it can be said that the product can be attractive and needed of the consumer (  = 4.11, SD = 0.66), it reflected the local wisdom of the community (  = 4.24, SD = 0.66), it created profitable income for people in the community (  = 4.24, SD = 0.66) and used in different situations (  = 4.24, SD = 0.66). The incomes had a significance differences at 0.05 level (p-value < 0.05).