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     Center of Agricultural Information have an assignment to the Division of Geo-Informatics (GI) on the activity “data harmonization between Office of Agricultural Economics (OAE) and Land Development Department” under the project of applying GI for enhance agricultural production in 2024. The commodity is defined in oil palm 2024. The field survey is located in Ubon Ratchathani, Si Sa Ket, and Nakhon Ratchasima and operated during 28 March – 6 April 2024. The tasks are setting for oil palm coordinates collection (64 sample plots) for spatial data harmonization classification with moderate satellite imageries. The main objectives are collecting oil palm coordinates and updating the oil palm 2024 spatial data, which are important information for agricultural policy planning and management.
     The results of field survey indicated the overlaps between two data sources (e.g., LDD and OAE) and majority of sample plots were oil palm areas. Oil palm ages are ranged between 5 until over 15 years. Obviously, farmers harvested their production twice a month and transfer their production to nearby markets. Oil palm’s production is around 3.50 – 4 Baht/kilogram.