Study on the Factors of Awareness for the Production and Development of Vegetables by Farmers in Cambodia

Abstract

Recently, vegetable has also been cultivated by many farmers in Cambodia due to the increase of its demand in the local market. The main objective of this study was to clarify the awareness levels of the local farmers with an emphasis on agriculture production information for the sustainable development of vegetable production. Based on the multiple correspondence analysis results, the information required by local farmers was shown to be different depending on farm management scale. It can be concluded that it is important to provide information and technology that is adapted to the development stage of agricultural management of each local farmer. Moreover, a categorical principal component analysis is used to categorize and clarify the effectiveness of kind of agricultural production information was needed to develop vegetable production.