Factor effecting the sustainable income generation of the value added products of local fishery in Ranong Province, Thailand

Abstract

The study objective was to check the impact of personal characteristics, financial constraints and fish processing methods on the sustainable income generation of the value added products of local fishery in Ranong Province, Thailand. For this purpose, the data was collected from 80 fishermen from the Ranong province of Thailand which was analyzed from both of the statistics of descriptive and inferential. The key findings had shown that majority of the people 70 percent used traditional kiln for the processing of their fishes whereas 24 percent were using the fried fishes within the vegetable oil. It was also found that most of respondents were sourced their credits from their personal savings 46 percent, cooperatives 29 percent and from family and friends was 18 percent for the processing the fish activities and 7 percent from micro finance banks. The respondents had generated their income (gross profit) of THB 2247.80 from roasted fish, THB 1123.90 from dried fish, and THB1669.79 from fried fish. The regression model results had shown that respondent’s personal characteristics, constraints and processing methods had greater influence on the sustainable income generations.