2005 Volume 14 Issue 2 Pages 93-108
In Thailand a rapid deforestation is under way due to agricultural land development with the increase of population and development of economy. This agricultural land development has extended to the lands where agricultural land use was said to be difficult in accordance with the decrease of the development frontier. However these newly developed agricultural lands cause to create further degraded lands such as deforestation and abandonment of cultivation because these lands become infertile in a few years. To prevent the further spread of deforestation and abandonment of cultivation, the promotion of stable agricultural land use in the area is the urgent challenge. But there are few reports on the detailed analysis of the actual deployment of agricultural land development in the area. Therefore, this report focus on a agricultural land development project in Narathiwat province in Southern Thailand, where agricultural land use was said to be difficult due to peat swamp forest, and aims to reveal the current status of the project through both the deployment of project promotion and the management conditions of farmers participated in the project. To achieve these we will reveal two following points; 1) how the relationship between the project organization and farmers has developed including support systems and 2) what are the current status of production and operation of farmers according to the project deployment.
