Agricultural land abandonment in Thailand
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2015
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Nararuk Boonyanam (2015). Agricultural land abandonment in Thailand. Retrieved from: https://repository.nida.ac.th/handle/662723737/6258.
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Agricultural land abandonment in Thailand
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Thai farmers' poverty stems from several factors such as falling crop prices,
high input costs for crop production, shortage of cash for investment, erratic rainfall
distribution and all types of land use problems such as landlessness, land rights, land
infrastructure and land fragmentation. Although the government has implemented
several legislative actions and programs to address these problems, Thai farmers
remain largely poor and severe poverty is visible in the form of agricultural land
abandonment. Therefore, studying the causes of land abandonment will reflect the
causes of poverty and the effectiveness of government agricultural policies. Although
the issue of agricultural land abandonment has drawn a lot of attention, rigorous
quantification studies are rarely attempted.
The objective of this research is to identify the factors that cause agricultural
land abandonment and the appropriate policy measures for effectively addressing the
problem. The study area is Khon-Kaen Province where a total of 808 agricultural
parcel samples were selected for this study. This study utilizes the optimization
method based on duality production theory to derive input demand, output supply and
land allocation equations. The Simultaneous Tobit estimation was used to estimate
the system of nine equations.
The study identified the major contributing factors for land abandonment as
follows: agricultural machinery prices, followed by semi-right of property right,
pesticide price, full right of property right, sugarcane prices, land rental laws, water
supply, soil quality, parcel size, and distance to city. Based on the findings, this study
recommends the following policies (1) land infrastructure development; (2) limited
holding size; (3) community title deeds; (4) agricultural zoning and (5) price subsidy
programs with certain adjustments. The existing land rental laws need to be revised
while land allocation programs, debt moratorium projects, adverse possession laws
and reform of land and property tax act are inconclusive policies.
An implication for farmers based on this study is to recognize that the factor
behind their poverty do not come from the lack of property right over the land. In
addition, they should consider putting more concern in the water supply and soil
quality management, finding most appropriate crop for small plot production as well
as take advantage of the Agricultural Land Rental Act of 1981 trough leasing process.
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Thesis (Ph.D. (Economics))--National Institute of Development Administration, 2015