Abstract:
The objectives of this study were to study the situations of water resource usage for agriculture of agriculturalists in Wangkian dam, Padad subdistrict, Padad district, Chiang Rai province and to study problems and obstacles in water resource usage for agriculture of agriculturalists in Wangkian dam, Padad subdistrict, Padad district, Chiang Rai province. The samples of the present work were 242 households of Wangkian dam agriculturalists. The sampling was stratified random sampling. The data were collected by questionnaires. The statistics for data analysis were frequency distribution and percentage. The results were found that most of agriculturalists used water form Wangkian dam for agriculture (100 %). The great majority of water transportation from the water resource to agriculture areas was the main canal (72.31 %). Most of agriculture areas did not enough receive water (88.02 %). Most important problems and obstacles, water quantity was not enough (66.94 %), water distribution did not cover for all agriculture areas (72.73 %) and water transportation system was inefficient (82.64 %). The last year, there were no observation activities or no training in water management for agriculturalists (47.52 %) because of no funds. These problems effected to agriculturalists in rare knowledge and understand of effective water management and cased high frequency of confliction.