Strategies for Land Development under 10th plan

1. Strategy on Personnel Competence Development to Become Knowledge and Learning Organization
           1) Enhance personnel development on competency based approach by supporting and encouraging continued learning through effective knowledge management and systematic network database.
           2) Adjust environment to facilitate live long and continued learning and provide accessible information system to all staffs.
           3) Support all staff to improve themselves to be the best in creating applicable innovations and knowledge bases on land development and sustainable environment.
           4) Raise up capability of existing researchers to be more creative and specialized so that they can create valuable land development innovations that are compatible with existing technologies and country’s potentiality to serve changes and needs and to help increase productivity in both quality and quantity that lead to farmers’ self-reliance and commercial sustainability in long run. Moreover, the organization will launch incentive measures, for example sharing the obtained outcome from R&D to stakeholders in merit system, developing knowledge transferring procedures and admiring distinguish researchers with practical works to support highly efficient work of those researchers.
             5) Create continued learning society by improving knowledge and basic skills of all staffs in thinking, analyzing, creating, problem solving, decision making, and team working and encourage the value of morality and ethics for highly efficient work.
             6) Facilitate development of several fields of indigenous knowledge and disseminate them to farmers and publics for extensive adoption.
 
2. Strategy on Strengthening Farmer and Land Development Networks
           1) Solving the problem of 2 main groups of farmers:
                      1.1 Poor small farmers: transfer knowledge, support and promote land use and soil improvement, develop infrastructures for highest potential land use in order to increase productivity and farm income to be sufficient for self-reliance living of both individual farmer and their family.
                      1.2  Support farmers to be advanced in agricultural business: promote farmer grouping in all forms, provide soil improvement materials, transfer technology on organic agriculture and develop necessary infrastructure to increase value of agricultural products.
           2) Arrange mobile soil unit, not only to support Mobile Unit Project to provide soil analysis service including provision of suggestion and materials on soil improvement to farmers, but also to be the mechanism to transfer technology on land development to target farmers as well.
           3) Develop and extend LDD study centers to be learning sources on land development, support development project under the royal initiatives to be Agro-tourism site, and establish Soil Doctor Volunteer and related networks throughout the country.
           4) Promote farmers’ group formulating and strengthening to support technology transfer on land development. Mobilize the community‘s participation in harmonized land resource conservation, rehabilitation and utilization via the efficient mechanism called Soil Doctor Volunteers.
           5) Promote community participation in both urban and rural areas in utilizing and conserving environment and land resource.
           6) Improve proficiency of LDD local lecturers; lecturer from Soil Doctor Volunteers and core farmers to strengthen networks on land development technology transfer and activate National Agenda on Organic farming.
          
3. Strategy on Accelerating Agricultural Land Development
           1) Develop land development infrastructure for sustainable agriculture production, conduct zoning for land development, establish integrated land development practices demonstration plot at suitable sub-watershed areas to be a learning center on soil conservation and rehabilitation and sustainable land use for farmers and public.
           2) Design and construct farm ponds for soil and water conservation and agricultural consumption.
           3) Conduct land development in compliance with Sufficiency Economy Philosophy by conserving, rehabilitating, and improving soil resource to be a safe production base. Expand the areas of the New Theory and organic farming implementation.
            4) Support activities of organic fertilizer factories, persuade the participation of community representatives in factory management and expand the use of organic fertilizer for safe agricultural production as well as promote an efficient utilization of agricultural residues in the area.
              5) Prevent and relief natural disaster - flood, global warming, land slide, deteriorated land, annual flood zone and annual drought zone. Rehabilitate effected areas and facilitate land use in appropriate ways as well as set up warning system for natural disaster zone.
 
4. Strategy on Building the Best in Technical Works and Technology Transfer
           1) Support research works and land development innovation to raise up productivity in both quality and quantity and reduce production cost especially in poverty areas, agricultural structure reform areas, and organic agriculture areas.
           2) Create connection and harmonization of technical working system between central and regional offices to support efficient and effective works for innovation.
           3) Develop updated and accurate information technology system in the fields of land resource management and land development technologies.
           4) Promote research works on indigenous intellectual development to find out the scientific solutions on land development and further develop those solution for continuous technical improvement.
           5) Establish network for knowledge transfer and use and support the use of active information dissemination channels on land development technologies and relevant activities to target groups to create realization on the value of land resource conservation for sustained fertility.
 
5. Strategy on Development of Good Governance Administration
           1) Promote morality, ethics and good governance among officials. Encourage them to take the Royal Advice on “Understanding, Accessing, and Developing” as a guideline to work with farmers and the public, especially the provision of accurate technical suggestion and instructions.
           2) Encourage officials to uphold the law concerning public inspection and public participation.
           3) Restructure working system to be more efficient and flexible. Change their roles from self-implementer to be development supporter. Administrate organization effectively to meet the objectives and goals of master plan and serve farmers’ needs.
           4) Apply area approach and participatory approach to strengthen communities in local and provincial level. Amend Land Development Act to ease the implementation and to conserve land resource.
           5) Develop performance management in staff level with obvious indicators. The result from staff evaluation will be a useful criterion for individual promotion.
           6) Adjust and reduce work process including budget, asset, and finance administration.
            7) Create shared values on working as follows:
                          7.1 Royalty to organization
                          7.2 Technical orientation and personal value
                          7.3 Good governance
                          7.4 Responsibility for people and country
                          7.5 Teamwork for set goals
                          7.6 Applying Sufficiency Economy Philosophy
 
              8) Acquire 6 principles for good administration as follows:
                          8.1 Principle of Value for money
                          8.2 Principle of Rule of law
                          8.3 Principle of Morality
                          8.4 Principle of Responsibility
                          8.5 Principle of Participatory
                          8.6 Principle of Transparency