TY  - BOOK
AU  - Eathipol Srisawaluck
AU  - Weber,Karl E.
AU  - Demaine,Harvey
AU  - Suvit Yodmani, 
AU  - Gonzales,JrR.L.
ED  - Agricultura l Land Reform Office,  Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives  Roya l Thai Government, 
TI  - Problems of land reform implementation in Thailand: land sale to farmers under the land reform programme in private land
T2  - Thesis
PY  - 1988///
CY  - Bangkok
PB  - Asian Institute of Technology
KW  - Land reform
KW  - Thailand
N1  - A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for t he Award of the Degree of Master of Science; Thesis (M.Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1988
N2  - The major objective of agricultural land reform in Thailand is to  solve the problem of tenancy and landlessness through acquiring land  suitable for agriculture from absentee landlords, or through allocating  public land to farmers in need, either on a rental or on a hire-purchase  basis. Providing land ownership to each farmer is the ultimate purpose  of land reform. After several years of land reform implementation it  became evident that its goal could hardly ever be realized, because only  a minority of tenant farmers in the land reform area had been interested  in hire-purchasing the land they till. Moreover, some of those farmers  who had erstwhile hire-purchased land renounced their hire-purchasing  contracts later-on. This study found out that the major reasons stated  by both tenants and renouncers for rejecting or for renouncing  hire-purchasing contracts included sizes of land allocated being too  small for earning a livelihood, poor soil and implicit low productivity,  and consequently low income as well as indebtedness. This failure was also  due to the fact that land allocated by the Agricultural Land Reform Office  (ALRO) to farmer5 was identical with plots that farmers had rented from  private landowners until the time of land reform implementation. Some  of these old tenants had never paid any rent to the former landowners for  extended periods, owing to constraints imposed by nature or sheer  deliberate evasion of payment. These farmers found it difficult to enter  into any type of formal contract that would oblige them to make regular  payments. In the absence of any adequate infrastructure development,  without any sound measure of financial assistance, and lacking any  suitable models of farm management, farmers who had switched from tenant  to landowner status under the ALRO strategy for creating land ownership  through hire-purchasing had ;.iot experienced any tangible change of their  socio-economic condition. The study includes specific recommendations  for measures to promote the acceptance and adoption of hire-purchasing  and for strengthening farmers' ability to generate higher income from  their own land in the long run
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