Important Projects and Activities
The implementation of the activities of the Khao Hin Sorn Royal Development Study Centre
is jointly responsible by officials from many different agencies such as the Royal Irrigation Department, the Royal Forest Department, the Department of Fisheries, the Department of Livestock Development, the Land Development Department, the Department of Agriculture and etc. The important activities include
rehabilitation of forest; improvement of water sources by constructing a total of nine reservoirs according to His Majesty’s initiatives; rehabilitation and conservation of soil by conducting the surveys of land use, laying the soil andwater conservation system to prevent erosion of topsoil, setting up the soil and water conservation system by means of earth embankments and vetiver grass hedgerows, promoting the making of compost, organic fertilizer and green manure, as well as providing the knowledge on soil development by organizing training for the farmers living in the surrounding villages; and introduction of the principle for land management according to the concept of the New Theory in order to educate the farmers about integrated farming which could yield sufficient income for all year round.
The Royal Development Study Centres and the Philosophy of Sufficiency Economy