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The preferable sub-strategies, which all farmers apply, are the reduction of household

expenditures, the increment of savings allocation, spending on money savings, loans from
formal lending institutions to solve financial problems, increasing diversification of production

system, marketing information monitoring, participated farmers group/cooperatives, and

direct sales of outputs to the consumers, central market, auction market or factories. The small

family rubber farms often apply

Sub-strategies related rubber plantation expansion, the adjustment on tapping days,
and increasing food and animal production for household consumption and commercial are

often employed by the small rubber farms. Adjustments of production system and the

expansion of other cash crops are implemented by the medium-sized family rubber farm

enterprise as well as labor and contracts management strategies. The socioeconomic factors

affecting the risk management strategies are age, gender, education level, farm experience,
number of family members, nonfarm employment, off farm employment, the use of hired-labor,

debt, size of land holding, participation with the replanting scheme, group member, and types

of rubber farms, which were statistically significant.

The assessment results on the viability of rubber farmers using viability indicators 4
dimensions, which are, economics, natural resources and environment, society and

institutions. The results represent that all types of farms are capable to survive in the moderate

level except the medium-sized family rubber farm enterprise, which show the high level of

viability. Nevertheless, the very small family and small family rubber farms are capable to
economically survive in the low level. The medium-sized family rubber farm enterprise are

capable to economically survive in the highest level.

As the study results, the government should consider options of risk management

policies as follows; 1) natural disasters and climate risk management, 2) price and market risk

management, 3) production risk management, 4) financial risk management, 5) human
resource development in farm sector, 6) the measurement to promote governance along with

the policy decision and the implementation.

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