Strategical Alternative in Broadening the Profile for Thailand's Sustainable Agriculture

Abstract

One of the major rationales to bring about a viable economic development and environmental protection under the broader long-term based rural development concern through agriculture of our country is via sustainable strategy. Much of the support for a strategical alternative system of farming practices has given strength and viability in the way we treat our environment and changes in the way we view our economy. This is based on a felt need for a reorientation , a need to put a human ecological face on sustainable development underpinning today's future-oriented participatory strategies. These changes and other necessary conditions in creating a positive intellectual integrated approach and cardinal measures of successful development come with a long-term policy framework conducive to promotion of adaptive research, and innovative extension educational-application forces to support the needed changes in new agriculture paradigms sufficiently consistent with established agroecological knowledge. The effect of these various factors has been substantially contributed to moving and providing the best available appropriate technologies and information for increasing productivity and efficiency in making agriculture structure desirable with activities to reduce natural environment disturbances for a broader and better environmental quality protection of the society.