Impacts of the Infrastructure Construction on Land Use Change in Bang Khanun Subdistrict, Bang Kruai District, Nonthaburi Province

Abstract

Objectives of the study were to determine the socio-economic condition, impacts level and relationship between impacts of the infrastructure construction and land use change in Bang Khanun Subdistrict, Bang Kruai District, Nonthaburi Province. The using data was gathered by employing the designed questionnaires interviewed 108 respondents who live in Mue 1 Ban Bang Khanun and Mue 2 Ban Tak Dat. Chi-square method was employed for testing the relationship between each type of infrastructure and land use change with the given significant level was 0.05 and by the SPSS software. Results of the study indicated that the gender of respondents were male and female with rather equivalent number, and their average age were 53.69 years. Their educational level were at primary school. Agriculture was their main occupation. The average annual house- hold income were 88,534.07 bath per year. The average resettled period and size of land holding was 50.95 years and 3.99 rai respectively. Their lands were located beside the by pass. They use their land utilization for orchard and most of them were membership of grand old forum, received impacts from the infrastructure construction in this area at the moderate level and most respon-dents (51.90 %) visualized that land use in the study areas were changed. Factors significantly related to the land use change of farmer orchard at Bang Khanun Subdistrict, Bang Kruai District, Nonthaburi Province were road construction.

Keywords: Impacts, Infrastructure construction, Land use change, Nonthaburi Province