Development of land use in Suburban community of a major Isarn Cities
1992
Suwit Theerasasawat | Chob Deesuankoke | Chalit Chaikanchit (Khon Kaen Univ. (Thailand). Faculty of Humanities and Social Science Dept. of History and Archaecology)
Land-use patterns during the first period of the three communities were similar. Most of the areas (64.18 %-94.57 %) were covered with deciduous forests and groves. The villagers used to rely on the forests for food items such as wild vegetables, mushrooms, bamboo shoot and kindling. Only 4.66 %-17.62 % was cultivated as paddy fields. Use of land during the last period (after 1961) has changed entirely. Forests could not be found at present while at the same time much more land has been cultivated with rice paddy. At Don Taew, the villagers also grow cash crops such as sugar cane for the production of sugar cakes, kenaf and cassava. Thirty-seven per cent of the landusers comprise outsiders. The land sold to people from outside has been occupied by factories, a large farm, real estate, academic institutions or left idle awaiting for more benefits. The sellers use the money to buy land for paddy at the outskirt of the district, build their new houses, deposit in commercial banks and use it for household expenditure. The people sold their land because of price incentives or because they lack laborers. There is a trend that 15.76 % of the households will sell the remaining land. The change of land-use and land holding patterns resulted in: (1) The number of households without land increased to 5.44 rai. (2) The national reserved forest has been encroached upon and has indirect result from the change of landuse. (3) The people's occupation and ways of living have changed, Sixty-two point five per cent of the villagers now hold non-farm occupations while 30.34 % hold both non-farm and on-farm occupations and only 5.16 % are still working on farms. (4) Environmental pollution has been brought about, namely unpleasant odor, dirt, contaminated water and floods, all coming from factories and land-filling activities by investors.
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