The Results of Land Allocation Project Implementation for Communities in Accordance with The Government Policy: A Case Study of Agricultural Land Reform Areas

Abstract

          Solving the problems of poverty and landless people is a main mission of every government. From the Ninth to the Twelfth National Economic and Social Development Plan, increasing land rights distribution and reducing land ownership inequality have been emphasized. The present government then enacted the act of the national land policy committee B.E. 2562 to solve land resource management of Thailand.
          This study aimed to examine a land allocation project for communities in accordance with the government policy: a case study of agricultural land reform area, emphasizing three main aspects, which were a government policy, the land alloactino project implementation of Agricultural Land Reform Office (ALRO). Documentary research methods were conducted using secondary data collection from various sources such as books, journals, research papers, meeting reports, and online documents. A qualitative study was also performed using content analysis to classify data. Descriptive details with flow charts and infographic were presented.
          The findings showed that this land allocation project was innovation of ALRO to allocate land to farmer institutes as previously ALRO mainly allocated land to individual farmers. Althought this project well met the needs of ALRO and the government policy, the project operation was slow and could not meet people’s demands. In spite of having the project implementation at a policy level and a regional level, the project operation at both levels was harmoniously performed because the National Land Policy Committee Act, B.E. 2562 (2019) let organizations exercise their own power given under their own Acts. For the project implementation of ALRO, land plots were allocate to 1,490 farmers of 13 cooperatives in 21 areas of 8 provinces while allocation of land plots of 5 provinces has been in still ongoing process. However, ALRO urgently needed to complete infrastructure development and farming career promotion for building farmers’ copacity. And more importantly, ALRO had to figure out how to provide greater access to land for the poor who resitered for land contribution.