ความยั่งยืนของข้าวอินทรีย์สุรินทร์: บนเส้นทางมาตรฐานการผลิตพืชอินทรีย์ กรมวิชาการเกษตร

Abstract

Organic Rice Certification at Surin was begun in 2003 by the National Bureau of Agricultural Commodity and Food Standards (ACFS) as an accreditation body (AB). The ACFS tried to work with the Organic Institute of the Department of Agriculture (DOA) as a certification body (CB) and the Office of Agriculture, Surin Province. Many inspectors from Office of Agricultural Research and Development Region 4 (OARD4) and DOA had been inspected organic rice fields in Surin. The certification process system is developed yearly. During 2003-2006, there are 4378 farmers applied for organic rice certification but only 895 farmers were certified. The main reasons that many farmer's fields could not past inspection were: chemical fertilizer were applied, the bunds could not prevent the risk of contaminated water from chemical rice field and the usage of uncertified granule organic fertilizer. Farmers did not understand the standards for organic crop production. They applied for the certification because they wanted to support the government policy. The inspectors suggested that many obstructions of the sustainability of organic rice production such as lack of crop and animal diversity in their farms: use of substances foreign to their farms and the weakness of farmer's group. To sustain the organic farming system in the future, government must educate the farmers (producers), consumers, promote the group of farmer to produce, processing and support some production materials.