Four-point plan to help farmers
More than 150,000 farming families will be given 2.25 million rai of farmland under the Agricultural Land Reform Office's new four-point development plan to be instituted next year.
Learning centres providing advice on the self-sufficiency economic doctrine will be built in another 1,200 tambon across the country. The project is expected to educate an additional 800,000 farmers already living and working on a total of 13 million rai of farmland. An extended project will focus on turning the knowledge of self-sufficiency into concrete implementation. The project aims to increase household income while reducing household debt. The extended project will benefit 17,940 farmers living in self-reliant communities located in 36 provinces covering 298,950 rai of farmland. Village-enterprise business schemes will be made available in these communities, with a Bt600 million low-interest loan already granted. The fourth project concerns the creation of a long-term master plan for use in 17 provinces with the help of six educational institutes. The criteria for development include improvement of natural resource conservation and the systematic prevention of chronic flooding.
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