Land Development : A Fundamental of Sustainable Agriculture
Land Development Department Services

Soil Consultant : Doctor Soils

1. What is a Doctor Soils?
Soil is like a living thing. Living thing can sick as well as soil also. Person who cure their patient we call “Doctor” namely Surgeon, Ophthalmologist, Dentist. So that person who cure soil we should call “Doctor Soils”
Land Development Department has a function about soil for richness and the highest utility for agriculture. It has staff more over 4,000 manpowers which include expert in each field 2,000 persons. These people service knowledge and look on soil total areas. From their responsibility we call them “Soil Doctor”

3. Doctor Soils activities?
Types 1 - 4 They have same activities, it different only theirs experience and level of problems such as "Bare Foot Doctor" is a base person who is staff of Land Development Department where scatter all country about 190 stations. Bare Foot Doctors service farmers at village the same as Doctor type 2 and 3. But "Bare Foot Doctor" has uncomplicated equipment for soil analysis and they solve at least basic problems.

4. How do you can get service?
Land Development Department put "Bare Foot Doctor" in each village every year, each year 5,340 villages, for service farmers especially poor village. Office of Land Developmet in each province inform that which village is target village and when they will get service. In case of farmers have problem facing, they acquire direct to office of Land Development in Province. Or farmers can collected their soil sample and send it direct to Office of Land Development which close to their home.

5. What do you gain from Doctor Soils service
You will know..

What kind of soil in your farm or your village, what kind of soil problem?
Which plants suit for your soil type? Which plants should be cultivate?
Which fertilizer able to use, how much?
Simplify and costless service for soil and fertilizer analysis
Consultant for soil utility, soil and water conservation and soil improvement
You have "self agriculture planing" strategy
You have opportunity of some service as seed for soil covering, seed for soil conservation and accelerated substance for decompose.

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6. Volunteer
Land Development Department trains farmers in each village for volunteer. So that volunteer is a farmer who representative from Land Development Department. Their activities are to contribute knowledge of soil and soil improvement to farmers. In each village has a volunteer, total country has 65,000 persons.
Doctor Soils Charateristics

Age, not below 20 years old, male or female
       To be willing
       Capable read and writ
       Domicile in village
       Interested in soil development
       Healthy
       Some former trained from Land Development Department.

Doctor Soils :An Advantage of Farmer