Abstract:
The operation of the Royal Watershed Development Project of Forestry Department, Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, hints to solve the problem of encroachment of the forestland in the Northern part of Thailand and to develop the appropriate advanced technology of land used according to the land capability and suitability in order to decrease the destruction of the forest resource and to improve the balancing of the environment of the Watershed area. This thesis is aimed towards the study of the operation of this project throughout the evolutional proceeding have been done, study of the operational problems and proposing how to solve the problems. According to this study, if was found that in order to reached towards the objectives of the project thereby improving preservation of the forest which being destroyed by the hilltribe. The project was pointed to two job catagories that were the forest plantation and the settlement of the Royal Hilltribe Development Village. Therefore the operational development had combined with many fields as ecology, economics, and sociology including co-operation with government and commercial agencies concerned since the operational project done in 1974 to 1983 was found that there was not completely succeeded. The solution of the forest plantation could not settle the forest to substitute the destructive forest and some group of the population were convicted to development. The problems can be summarized into two catagories as follows : 1.The problem of management and development which are mainly concerned with lacking of budget supporting, manpower, problems of management as the matter of fact, this project was executed by the government sector which have several other government agencies concerned. Furthermore, there are still some social problems namely difference in culture, custom, religion, languages, and the low efficiency of population. 2. The problem of implementation which are related with the problems of geography, lack of communication network, market, and co-operation among agencies concerned. Even though the government has come out appriciately support to establish and to operate for the long term project but it couldnt reach the target. Herewith the main point of the problems were caused by management, development and implementation as mentioned above. Therefore to relieve the destruction of the forest resource, it is strongly recommended that the problems should be solved immediately; Moreover the agencies incharged should also be concentrated not only on the establishment information system which could be used as a tool in project planning, monitoring and evaluation but also the government agencies and institutions concerned must be fully cooperated.