The Adoption of Smallholder Rubber Production by Shifting Cultivators in Northern Laos: A Village Case Study - Smallholder Tree Growing for Rural Development and Environmental Services - page 117

Table 5.1 Land use zones in Hadyao Village (Hadyao Village, 2005)
Land use zones

%

Area (ha)

Conservation forest 700 15.2

Protection forest 1,300 28.3

Agricultural land 1,700 36.9

Production (plantation) forest 700 15.2

Grazing area 200 4.3

Residential area 4 0.1

Total 4,604 100.0

Fig. 5.2 Resource map of Hadyao village (Hadyao Village, 2005)

From the household survey, the average number of cultivated plots per house-
hold was 3.5. Over 90 percent of the households had between two and five plots
(Table 5.2). The total cultivated area averaged 5.1 ha. Most households were clus-
tered around the mean; 85 percent had from 1.9 to 7.7 ha. Two thirds of the house-
holds had all their plots within the village territory, while the remainder had one or
more plots in another village's territory (Table 5.3), an indication of the increasing
pressure on the village's available land. About 80 percent had land use rights to all
the plots they cultivated, while 20 percent had borrowed or rented at least one plot
of land because their allocated lands were already planted with rubber (Table 5.3).