The Promotion of Organic Agricultural Volunteer Youth and Planting from Waste Materials to Environmental Conservation for Primary School Students, Maha Sarakham Province, Thailand

Abstract

This research aims to compare awareness of native organic vegetable growing by using waste materials as planting materials
for environmental conservation, the volunteer spirit, and expansion before and after participating in activities. The sample
group consisted of 100 youth volunteers. The research instruments included a volunteer spiritual test, an awareness
questionnaire, and an expansion questionnaire. This study revealed three key findings. First, by using t-test, the students’
average awareness of planting local vegetables using waste materials as planting materials for environmental conservation
after participating in the activities was higher than before with a statistical significance level of .05. Regarding the volunteer
spirit, the volunteer spirit after participating in the activities was higher than before with a statistical significance level of
.05. Lastly, regarding the expansion of the promotion of native organic vegetable farming using waste materials as planting
material, the participants after 1 month of participating in the activities, they gained the knowledge and expanded it to their
parents and school mates and the level of expansion was found to be high.