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crops will alr.-zst dob.,e and will make a signiticant con­
tr.Lbuticn to net tixm income Net farm income generated by
l. , e -tcck 'I al .. ; incxe.ise signi fcan'tly.-.
B, ScC . An &Iys s5 rm
i. Benei.iac ;az ..es
Benef'c..Ies of th. s P:.ecr are some 65,000
peison: / ,;g 2r: e.ht tambcns ,at&ur 100 v-llages) of four
Nort-hease.,n Pr3vond..eE Eth-.n- zaiy they are predominantly
Lao-Isan ,Northe..tern Thae..) bat can speak central Thai
language; neally a>i having had at. least four years schooling
in the Tha. educat.'-onal system, The majcr ty (89%) can read
and w:ite central Tha as well, Average tamily size is 6.3,
about average f.i t. . - ,uzLa Northeast. Occupationally,
beneficiar.,s ate c..Et.whelm'.ngly ,85t raznfed agricul­
turalists no irrgated Lard,. and vir.tually all of them
is 30 rai
plant ritce as their, main c..po Avezage holding
3 upland, 1 misc.,, 1
(4,8 ha ! N'25 rai ra'.nfed paddy lad,
l d p.-.ants 22 rai in
non-cult~vataD.e) The avexage hosehc n ri. e, 1.5 ,n cish crops) and 2 rai
the wet seas..n 20.5
in the dr'y season, Average household income
in. cash crcpz
"e from rice (inis
011,500 1$8751, about nair of whi:b
-he rest is mainly from
cluding amu-n% consumed at V.'me:
crope. Fam".)y plann:.ng is practiced
off-farm wages ond cas1
by over 40% of the households,. Only 5% of household heads
.- ver 90% of the
have educae :n o.eyond the 4th leve.L but
The vast maj -:Ity of villages are
housenoids ha-,p a rad D-
but mo..it househcA.ds .r' w thin 3 or 4
not yet eie.:'t? i.ed;
kilometers of an a1l-weather road. Fornal organ.,zaticns
exist witt,.n the vilages (temple, school :nd development
committees, :-ttmers. rgan:.zatiCns and co-ops) and over 40%
of these
of the h3,Zhc..h d heads belong t. at least ox-
Ma.y hcuseholde have also part.c.ipated at
formal groupsone
t.me o! anothet n "development" efforts, often under
the "tambcn couns'" fund prcgram, bulding village roads,
repalr.rng br!.ges, et-.
2, Poverty
Poverty wltniin the Pxo. ect. -.eas :s tyr:"cal of
rural Noxr:heast Thatiand where a m.3:or.ty of Tha'_,-,nd's poor
50% are beiow the Woid Bank "absoluce poverty"
reside. Over
tz $120 per capita for 1979-RO crop year).
line (updated
cent of poor on a
There is con-derable vaxiation :n the per
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