Comparison of Smart Agriculture Literacy of Farmers in Thailand

Abstract

Smart agriculture is a concept of management of modern farming using smart/digital techniques to monitor, to optimize, and to control processes of agricultural production. To manage farm presently, the literacy in smart agricultural technologies is significant so that farmers need to improve themselves to adopt smart technologies for farming. However, each farmer has the difference skills and experience into adoption of smart agriculture technologies. Therefore, the aims of this paper is to survey smart agriculture literacy of farmers' skills and experience, specific in Chiang Mai and Khon Kaen province, Thailand. The questionnaire was constructed based on smart farmer's properties. The results of this paper reveal the comparison of smart agriculture literacy of farmers in Chiang Mai and Khon Kaen province, Thailand, by analyzing the survey results. According to the survey analysis results, farmers in Chiang Mai and Khon Kaen province are totally different of smart agriculture literacy due to their farming experiences, training experiences, age, background, etc.