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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing foreigners who are looking to undertake gardening, farming, and agricultural activity here in Thailand. This is kind of a hot button topic. I actually remember when I went through my own naturalization process, I was actually heavily grilled by a liaison officer from the Ministry of Agriculture as to whether or not if I became Thai, I was going to start undertaking farming.

Farming is considered very, very protected; it is zealously guarded as a trade and undertaking as a profession if you will here in Thailand. It's something that Thais do not want foreigners basically engaging in here in Thailand. 

Now some people ask, can I move to Thailand, go up country and farm my own food and things? Again, everything is situationally dependent. The underlying circumstances of a given individual's case is going to dictate the situation there. That said, directly engaging in farming is a highly restricted activity here in Thailand. Agriculture is a restricted undertaking here in Thailand. As I have discussed in other videos, there are restricted occupations in Thailand that you can't even be granted a Work Permit for, notwithstanding the fact Thailand does grant Work Permits and can grant work authorization for various types of undertakings; for farming that's a no go. So the thing to take away from this video and the thing to understand is there is a difference between, "oh I've got a tomato plant or something". That said, it is technically agriculture, so in a very strict sense of it, you could be viewed as engaging in something restricted.

Again if one is married to a Thai national and they are living on family land or something and farming is occurring, and you pick up a box or a hay bale or something and move it aside or something, I mean sort of routine I shouldn't say routine, innocuous minor undertakings on a farm does not farming make. So I am not saying that you have to be like the living statue or something if you are on like a family farm or something like this. But the point I am trying to make with this video is one should not presume that they can effectively just come to Thailand and engage in like agricultural activity. It's something we saw a lot of and saw a lot of people have problems in the Cannabis space here actually. Again Cannabis is agriculture; agriculture is a highly restricted undertaking here in Thailand and farming can be too. 

So this is something that if you are looking into doing this, again the underlying facts of a given case may, again, your relationship with folks, family or otherwise, may have an impact on the analysis of something like that. Probably not a bad idea to contact a legal professional, gain some insight and guidance into how best to proceed with that.