Farmers Rights the Management Variety Sustainable: A Case Study Participation of Community In Area Nakhon Sawan and Uthai Thani

Abstract

Plant Varieties Protection Act, B.E. 2542 (1999) Section 3 “wild plant variety”“general domestic plant variety”and “local domestic plant variety .These plant variety are distributed in various communities .The farmers is the occupation of most people throughout the country and involves management and utilization of plant resources for living and earning income. Farmers are important role in the conservation and protection of plant varieties and have a way of life that relationship with plant resources .Section 47 has provided farmers with the right to receive benefits from registered local plant variety. But such rights in practice is limited by law and policy. Therefore, in order to fully protect the rights of farmers and communities in accordance with the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand BE 2560 Section 57(2) The State shall: conserve, protect, maintain, restore, manage and use or arrange for utilisation of natural resources, environment and biodiversity in a balanced and sustainable manner, provided that the relevant local people and local community shall be allowed to participate in and obtain the benefit from such undertaking as provided by law. Should have to solve various problems for to conservation and protection of local domestic plant variety. The purposes of this research are to study the principles right of farmers' concept of participation of farmers in the management to protect the benefits of general domestic plant variety of communities in NakhonSawan and UthaiThani provinces. To analyze guidelines to solve the problem amendments to the law, Policy on participation in management for conservation and protection of general domestic plant variety in sustainable of communities. The study found that Participation in conservation and protection of general domestic plant variety in Ban KhaoYai community, Na Khom Sub-district,  Ban Khao Din community Wang Nam LatSub district, Phaisali District, NakhonSawan Province. Ban Huay Nam Takhae Community, Ban RaiSubdistrict, Ban Rai District and Ban HuaiRuam Sub-district, Thong Lang Sub-district, HuaiKhot District, UthaiThani Province are similar, By cooperation between leaders Community sages and people in the community according to the way of life of the community. Government agencies or private organizations are involved with the community in a different level four communities, Government agencies and Ngo have the same opinion, all sector should participate in the conservation and protection of general domestic plant variety together with the community, amend the law and government policy to be more appropriate.