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Land Development : A Fundamental
of Sustainable Agriculture
Land Resources in
Thailand
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Land use pattern
for agriculture in Thailand
is approximately 146,942,758 rais or 45.83 % of total Land.
Paddy field 83,783,756 rai cash crop 48,462,508 rai vegetable 88,061 rai Orchards and trees 14,608,433 rai Forest reserve 123,394,201 rai other such as community,
reservoir and bare land etc.50,351,991 rai Agriculture area in each region Northeast 60,238,388 rai North 33,392,953 rai Central&West 23,405,110 rai South 18,187,101 rai East 11,719,206 rai
: Land Development Department,2527 , Landuse Planning in Northeast
- Land Suitability
for
agriculture, from research of soil properties by using soil map in
region level scale 1 : 500,000. It consist of environment factors
which can classify in this following
Land Suitability Area [rai) % toal land suitable for cash crop 67,683,529 21.11 suitable for paddy field 84,469,300 28.33 suitable for tree in rainfed 16,359,806 5.10 unsuitable for economic crop but may be some specific crop 49,828,820 15.53 unsuitable for agriculture 99,875,685 31.15 Wet Land 2,478,810 0.78 Total 320,695,950 100.00