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1993 satellite photo survey showed that forest areas in Thailand
had diminished to only 13.35 million hectares of about 26 percent
of the country's total land area. Thus, during 1973-1993
deforestation had claimed about 8.8 million hectares. Most of the
devasted forest areas are located in the Northeast, the North, the
upper part of the Central Plains and the West; where there was
extensive slash-and- burn agricultural practive by villagers and
illegal log poaching.
In
view of the depletion of forest resources and the government's
restrictions on cutting, the growth rate of forestry output
declined from an annual average of 2.61 percent during the Second
Five-Year Plan (1967-1971) to 0.25 percent during the Fifth Five-Year
Plan (1982 -1986). The Royal Forest Department undertook various
reforestation projects in various areas of 607,492 hectares in
1980, 648,512 hectares in 1987 and about 1,000,000 hectares in
1993.
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