CHIANGRAI – Professor Anek Prateep Na Talang is a man with a mission, to promote the Poolae pineapple and promote proper agricultural practices among local farmers. “There are two ways of farming”, he says. ” The artificial way, where selfish farmers try to kill everything except their own fruit trees. They take out the weeds and [...]
BANGKOK – According to Science Daily ten new species of semi-aquatic earthworms have been discovered in Thailand. A study documented the discovery, authored by Dr. Somsak Panha, from the Animal Systematics Research Unit at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand has been published in the journal ZooKeys. The worms, placed in the genus Glyphidrilus, are [...]
CHIANGRAI TIMES – For some Thais, the capital city is just too much. Traffic jams, rainy-season floods and the general stress of day-to-day living in a city of 10 million people encourages many to hanker after a simpler way of life – and some achieve it, at least on the weekends. Computer programmer Wiroj [...]
Chiangrai Times – Thai farmers urged to grow rice earlier than usual to avoid damage by flooding. An agriculture expert has urged Rice farmers in Thailand to cultivate Rice far ahead of Monsoon season to prevent enormous damage to their crops due to perennial flooding. Charuek Singhapreecha, head of the Office of Agricultural Economics’s [...]
Doi Chaan is a quirky establishment in tiny Chiang Rai, a town near the Golden Triangle in Thailand’s far north, close to the Myanmar and Laos borders. The space has an interior garden complete with fountains, and salsa music echoes throughout. But the focus is on the locally grown Doi Chaang coffee. These are [...]
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Farmers from the provinces of Chiang Rai, Phrae, Nan and Phayao _ claimed they were duped by Suriyan Wachirawongwichathorn and 10 others into investing in what seemed like a profitable rice mortgage scheme. The 50 northern farmers yesterday turned to deputy House speaker Wisuth Chainarun for help after being swindled out [...]
CHIANGRAI TIMES - During 18 years living across the road from rice paddies, Malinee Khammon has never planted a single seedling. The daughter of farmers who is in her last year of high school, she has become adept at deflecting increasingly desperate pleas from her parents for help on the farm. “It’s hot and [...]
CHIANGRAI TIMES – A century ago Phrae was known as Thailand’s teak capital, having drawn half a dozen European timber companies to log the North’s then abundant teak reserves to ship abroad for use in steamers, train compartments and as a floor veneer. Not much is left of Thailand’s natural teak forests today – [...]
CHIANGRAI TIMES – A tea seed oil plantation in Chiangrai is helping a tribal community improve its lot. The sweet, herbal aroma of tea seed oil, with its wide variety of uses and healthy properties, offers a promising future for poverty-stricken tribal villagers in the far northern reaches of Thailand where families are often [...]
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Many farmers, lured by hearty annual returns of 800,000 baht per 20 rai, have abandoned rice for rubber farming across the North, Northeast and East. Some formerly debt-ridden landowners have been able to pay off their loans after a year or two of growing rubber trees and saved enough to buy [...]
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