Green products are among the widely used products worldwide due to their environmental benefits. However, information on the consumers' purchase intention towards green products in developing countries, such as Thailand, is lacking. This study aims to investigate Thai consumers who are aged over 18 years, and whose base education is high school, on purchase intention for green products by using an extended framework of the theory of planned behavior (TPB). We derived and examined the model through structural equation modeling in a sample of 483 respondents in Thailand. The findings of this model indicated that consumer attitude, subjective norm and perceived behavioral control have significant positive influences on the purchase intention for green products. Furthermore, our results indicated that environmental concerns have a significant effect on attitude, perceived behavioral control and purchase intention for green products, but subjective norm. Moreover, environmental knowledge had no significant effect on the purchase intention for green products. Instead, it had a distinct indirect effect through attitude towards purchasing green products, subjective norm and perceived behavioral control. The findings from this study contribute to improving the understanding of intention to purchase green products, which could play a major role towards sustainable consumption.

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This study aims to investigate the determinants that influence purchase intention towards green products of young Thai consumers group among 18 to 29 year olds. We derived and examined the model through structural equation modeling (SEM) in a sample of 425 young respondents in Thailand. Our results indicated that environmental consciousness, environmental knowledge and environmental attitude have significant positive influences on purchase intention towards green products. Hence, environmental attitude had high significant effect on consumers' purchase intention, which reflects that the young consumers have a positive attitude towards green products, thus, making them more purchase intention. Moreover, our results suggest that environmental attitude mediates the relationship between environmental consciousness, environmental knowledge and purchase intention towards green products of young consumers group in Thailand.

Krause J., Machek O. (2018): A comparative analysis of organic and conventional farmers in the Czech Republic. Agric. Econ. -Czech, 64: 1-8. Abstract:Organic farming has become a topic that receives an increasing academic as well as popular attention. Th is study examines the fi nancial diff erences between the organic and conventional farmers, as well as their income volatility. Based on the Student's t-test, the regression analysis and the matched-pair investigation on a sample of Czech 291 organic and 4045 conventional farmers over the period 2009-2013, the study indicates that the organic agricultural companies outperform the conventional companies in the terms of profi tability. However, their asset turnover is considerably lower. No evidence of diff erent income volatility has been found.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relative technical efficiency of rubber production

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Listed companies in the agribusiness sector of the stock exchange play a key role in driving the economic system of Thailand. They have an important role in terms of being the producers of agricultural commodities by covering all products from the upstream to downstream. The performance measurements of listed companies contain important information for forecasting the trends of agricultural production and yield. The paper studied and considered much of the literature on the performance measurement of organizations to look for relative variables and the optimal methodology. The study used panel data from 2011–2014, which collected the listed annual companies’ statements. The aim of the study was to employ the Slacks Based Measure context-dependent Data Envelopment Analysis (SBM context-dependent DEA) for evaluating the efficiency in Decision Making Units (DMUs). The SBM context-dependent DEA was used to measure the performance of listed companies by employing attractiveness and progress scores. The results showed that when a listed company has a higher attractiveness and lower progress score, it has a better performance than its competitors and does not need to improve its efficiency. Therefore, the empirical results of the study can help farmers and governments to realize the trends of agricultural productivity and also help the listed companies to understand the characteristics of their competitors, leading to improvements in their organizations.

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