**6. Discussion**

In predicting the result for the years 2020–2021, Thailand would have a good trend of the expansion of the rice field area in the dry season because most people were eager to work. Furthermore, with the present situation, many jobs have ceased in large centers like Bangkok that has affected the movement of laborers back to their home town. As a consequence, the business sector in industrial locations has faced the retardation of the global economy after the COVID-19 crisis. This has resulted in many people moving back to work in agriculture, especially in cultivating the rice fields like their ancestors [32]. Therefore, the trend of remaining rice stubble would increase more than the previous cultivation season that would contribute to the preparation of the research and material development sector to gain more remaining rice stubble.

As a result, this could be applied to increase the economic value by reducing the ratio of the burning of rice stubble for preparing the cultivation area after harvesting, as well as reduce the chances of initiating the PM 2.5 problem in Thailand.

Therefore, the agriculturist groups cultivating rice in the North-eastern region of Thailand in the dry season had the trend of using the remaining rice stubble in cultivation, including transforming it to be handicraft products. Originally, they selected the tilling method that caused the problem of increasing rat infestation that resulted in the Leptospirosis infection. Then, the agriculturists selected to burn the rice stubble instead. However, provided that there was another method to remove the rice stubble from the cultivation, this would increase the income to return to the agriculturists in a suitable way. As the result, this was developed into creative rice stubble products in North-eastern Thailand.

The steps for the development of the procedure used this method to transform the remaining rice stubble to be wood substitute material by boiling. Then, the tissue was peeled for two hours, except for the immersing step that was conducted for 960 hours. These two procedures presented a similar result with small and soft fiber, especially for the fine spinning procedure into the pressing procedure [33]. Therefore, from the sheet pressing result, [34] the result of the analysis found the standard level value of JIS A 5908–1994. Similarly, the test result of the wood substitute material from rice stubble showed the specific gravity and the density quantity property through the standard that conformed with the test standard of industry products for particle board in Japan [35]. Additionally, the standard consisted of seven fields: 1) density, 2) quantity of the sheet density, 3) water absorption, 4) inflation during immersing with the mechanical property, 5) resistance of the bending strength, 6) internal bonding force, and 7) bonding force of the screw [35]. As a result, this showed the result from pressing when applying the wood substitute material procedure to use in the furniture industry [36].

When the remaining rice stubble was produced as the handicraft patterns, the customer groups showed satisfaction toward the furniture model from the rice stubble at the most level. Additionally, the customers displayed interest from the

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aspects of the products with the high level of interestingness and novelty by giving importance from the most to the least levels: namely, interestingness and novelty, worthiness of the transformation, beauty, convenience to apply, and others. Then, this was conformed to the concept of handicraft products by focusing on the wood substitute material procedure by increasing the values to promote the communities and local area in suitable ways [37].

The two variables of the worthiness of the transformation and interestingness and the novelty presented the correlation with the satisfaction for new rice stubble products to the customer groups. However, beauty and the convenience to apply displayed no relationship with the customer groups'satisfaction for creative ideas as the direction of designing management for economic designs [38]. Furthermore, this included a new product development method based on the potential of the community and society to learn and develop together, which was the basic alteration for the various groups to gain sustainable development opportunities in the future for their societies and local areas [39]. Thus, it would be essential to have congruence with the environmental and economic conditions in those areas for producing the wood substitute material, and to base this on the analysis of the product with the wood substitute material design as an economic direction [40].

However, the predicted solution with satisfaction of the newly designed rice stubble furniture model could explain the alteration of the customer groups'satisfaction for the rice stubble furniture products with 44.2% of the solution that was ý = 1.473 + (0.271 X1) + (0.312 X2) + (�0.040 X3) + (0.163 X4). Thus, this could be considered as the predicting procedure of product images that could be considered for the future trend of newly developed products [41, 42].

The test for applying the peeling tissue procedure with rice stubble enabled the creation of different products, and a presentation of the decorated vase made of rice stubble was made [43, 44]. Then, this was used as the assessment of the comparison for the customer groups'satisfaction, and it was found that the customer groups had satisfaction to the rice stubble furniture and the decorated vases at an excellent level. As a result, there would be a better trend if the customers had an increased satisfaction level of 1.6% to the rice stubble products by focusing on some creative ideas compared to the first model products.
