A Study of the Needs and Abilities about Developing Rural Communities of People in the Villages of Baan Pardongyai 4 and Baan Coke Sa-nga, Pakum District, Burirum Province
Abstract:
This research was aimed (1) at studying the need and opinion of people in the target villages about self-development economically and socially including their participation in social group activities, (2) at studying abilities of the people in the target villages about self-development economically and socially and their participation in development economically and socially and their participation in developing village society. Techiques of a qualitative research had been employed as a process of this research. Tools and method of data collection used are advance-prepared interview froms, interviews, observations of peoples participation and a documentary study. The target groups are villagers of Baan Pardongyai 4 and Baan Coke Sa-nga, Pakum District, Burirum Province.
The research findings showed that the villagers were able to develop themselves economically, particularly their earning a living and consumption were seen as reasonable to their economical status. However, in a matter of the need to develop themselves economically some villagers, who are labours without the land of their own, need the land for farming. Furthermore, the people in in every family in Baan Pardongyai village 4 wanted to possess a legal farm land in order that they can participate in social development in the family and village level. It was also discovered that for the people in these two villages, there was a suitable arrangement of social roles and duties for their members, that is, in each community there have been traders, labours and big-scale farmers who wanted to employ workers since they produced goods for sale. As for their participation in social development in a family level, it was found that every member in families actively helped one another in earning a living.
Some suggestions put forth are that the government agencies responsible for allocating farm land for the villagers of Baan Pardongyai village 4 should speed up their action to help these people to possess a legal farm land of their own soon. As for rural development it should be emphasized on an ideology of Paen Din Dham Paen DinTong (the land of peace and prosperity) and the appropriate technology should be brought in for developing agriculture and the poor should be given an urgent development in particular.