History Of Regional Office of Agricultural Economics 12

          Having an agricultural economic zone agency in the Office of Agricultural Economics Derived from The Revolutionary Executive Council passed a resolution on October 19, 1972 for the Ministry of Agriculture, through the Agricultural Economics Division at that time, to consider dividing Thailand according to provincial territory into 19 economic agricultural zones.

           According to the Agricultural Economics Act of 1979, this refers to agricultural production zones. This includes growing crops and raising animals. and reforestation that is determined to suit market conditions and the country's agricultural economy. Taking into account the similar conditions of production factors such as soil, weather, water sources, plants grown, animals raised Type of agriculture and the main income of farmers After the said area has been determined Office of Agricultural Economics A number of civil servants and employees have been dispatched to work in various areas of each district. They were assigned the duty of collecting data on farm business. Process data from farm accounts Then send it to the central government to report on agricultural movements regarding production conditions, marketing and prices. Survey data on the amount of agricultural product production. Then send the raw data to the central office.

           Later in 1987, there was a change in the allocation of agricultural economic zones from 19 zones to 24 zones and there were 24 government agencies established within the Office of Agricultural Economics. It is an organization that acts as a "representative" of the Agricultural Economics Office established in the region. The budget for equipment and buildings was approved to create permanent workplaces for each district. Including allocating a certain amount of personnel along with an annual budget to work in the area of responsibility. In this regard, additional missions and responsibilities have been established besides collecting agricultural data, namely studying and analyzing the agricultural economic situation of local agricultural products. Survey, monitoring and evaluation in collaboration with the central government and coordination of provincial agricultural development plans. Including analysis of agricultural development plans according to resource conditions in the area.

          Therefore, government agencies are divided within agricultural economic zones. according to the current original structure Therefore it consists of
                    1. Agricultural Economic Analysis Group
               ​     ​2. Agricultural Economic Development Plan Analysis Group
               ​     ​3. Administrative work

          ​​Later in the year 2002, under the government administration reform Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives Has issued a Ministerial Regulation on the division of government departments of the Office of Agricultural Economics, B.E. 2002, effective on October 9, 2002, resulting in the division of government departments into agricultural economic zones, which originally had 24 zones, to be established as Office of Agricultural Economics Zones 1-9, with each zone having the status of a division and the Office of the Civil Service Commission's letter No. 1009/33, dated 10 October 2002, regarding the positioning of the new government division structure of the Office of Agricultural Economics. and has divided internal government departments accordingly new structure which includes
     ​     ​     ​     ​1. General administration department
     ​     ​     ​     ​2. Agricultural Information Group
     ​     ​     ​     3. Agricultural Economic Zone Development Plan Group
     ​     ​     ​     4. Research and Evaluation Group