Abstract
Economic Forest as a forest plantation in private land is the target area of the government forest policy to increase forest area. Such target not only increase forest area, but also timber consumption within the country and export. Consequently, the Royal Thai Government (RTG) by Royal Forest Department (RFD) have to encourage the private companies, individual farmers and other sectors participate in increasing economic forest plantation area. At the same time, the government sector, needs to develop the economic forest plantation management, namely; improve the law due to the problem of verifying the timber source as forest plantation or natural forest for confident of the rights and benefits of the forest plantation, support of economic forest plantation is still in operate concurrently with improve the process of regulations and technology for service to facilitate the several stakeholders according to levels of production, and the RFD have projects to promote an individual farmer to plant forest plantation by supporting subsidy and conditioned planting long rotation trees and planting short rotation trees which are worthwhile investment and give high benefit. Nevertheless, in terms of the government management had taken the growing timber demand into account by combining with sustainable management of natural forests and development of efficient production from forest plantations in order to increase forest area according to the National Forest Policy.
Highlights
In Thailand the reforestation in the private land is the economic forest plantation, that one of target to increase the forest area, has been carried out by private sectors for more than 30 years
Royal Thai Government RTG by Royal Forest Department (RFD) need to develop the economic forest plantation management in order to encourage the private sector to participate in the planting economic forest plantation
Economic forest plantation management by the government sector must be carried out by supporting the operation of the private companies, Forest Farm Cooperatives, semi-private enterprises, individual farmers and others stakeholders in terms of technique, technology development, law improvement, stakeholder cooperation, negotiation the framework of cooperation and develop all process in order to facilitate in service
Summary
In Thailand the reforestation in the private land is the economic forest plantation, that one of target to increase the forest area, has been carried out by private sectors for more than 30 years. Management capability and policy tool such as databases, regulations, law enforcement, and economic instruments have not been utilized efficiently This has led to depletion of natural resources and deterioration of the environment, thereby, has affected the overall balance of the ecosystem (NESDB, 2016). The RTG has proposed a policy to resolve the degraded forest resources that are still threatened and destroyed by human and natural disasters It is a long-term effect of the government in allocating areas for livelihood in the degraded forests. The conservation areas and national reserved forest areas are managed directly by government agencies, while the implementation in private lands is only supported and promoted by government agencies through regulations and policies only
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