Problems and Obstacles on Law Enforcement of Land Reform Law for Agriculture

Abstract

The Act enforcement of Land Reform Law for Agriculture is focally aimed to promote the better livelihood of  people, however, the problems were found that the land reform had no measurement on the protection of the agricultural areas if the entitled farmers did not make use of the land received through land allocations in accordance with the objectives, but, had used the land for exploitations of the benefits which they should not be entitled to: such as; selling them or concealing the land possession which would cause the impact on the state’s natural resources and would not be in accordance with the purpose of the land reform to help the people.

            Deriving from the study, it was found that Act on Land Reform for Agriculture, B. E. 2518 (1975) contained no penalty provision to inflict punishment upon farmers violating the regulation on the utilizations of land in the land reform zone, thus, made those farmers having no fear on their commission of the offence the land reform lack of the efficiency on the state’s land allocations consequently resulting in the land to be vested in the possessions of a particular group of persons without any thorough and fair distributions on the possessions to the new generation of farmers.

It was also found that the practical performance guidelines according to the memorandum of agreement between Land Reform Office for Agriculture and Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives in connection with the giving of the right to the new farmers to take possessions of the land had resulted in such new farmers to be burdened by the debts of the previous farmers which were compelled to be paid first before they could take possession of the land which was considered to be inconsistent with the intention on the land reform for agriculture where farmers were needed to have the land of their owns.