Tag: farming
Mushroom farming scammers make off with 1.29bn baht
POLICE held an urgent meeting today (Aug.1) to solve a mushroom farming fraud case in which 1,867 victims have lost altogether 1.29 billion baht in the well-promoted scam, TV Channel 7 said. Deputy national police chief Pol. Gen. Damrongsak KittiPraphat, as head of the Police Cyber Taskforce, told all units to accelerate investigation into …
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Dates lined up for online sale as travel ban deters ex-farm trading
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DATE FARMERS IN RATCHABURI have launched online sale of their produce to streamline the freshly-picked fruit under the sustained pandemic situation which has been literally keeping customers away. Farmer Kirana Chamvecha of Tha Khoey subdistrict of Suan Phueng district has managed to have her dates put for sale online in …
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Growing guava trees in rice-farming neighbourhood
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PAKORN PICHITTHACHAI had long taken pride in the rice which he had only produced to feed fellow villagers of Baan Phaeo district of Samut Sakhon where most rely on fishery, seafood processing industry and other types of manufacturing industry. Not until the last few years had he turned to cultivating …
Earning extra income from extra-season mango
By Thai Newsroom Reporters GROWING MANGO TREES of Khiew Savoey genus in vicinity of a rice farm in extra harvest season used to be a painstaking challenge for farmer Supaluck Chomfuengfung in Doem Bang Nang Buat district of Suphanburi who has spent most time, energy and money simultaneously tending to her rice farm as …
Vulnerable yet valuable papaya
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PAPAYA TREES are not so resistant to drought or diseases as sugarcanes in the tropical climate of a remote district of Petchaburi but papaya is a cash crop worth several times as much at a domestic market. Farmer Chamnong Meeritthichai of Nong Yaplong district used to operate a sugarcane plantation in …
Cashew nuts in place of corn and cattle
By Thai Newsroom Reporters FARMER KHAJORN PANWONG, a native of Wiang Sa district in Nan, has not only worked hard to turn his drought-stricken corn and cattle field into a fertile cashew nut farm but encouraged his relatives and neighbours to follow suit for the last several years. His pursuit for agricultural advancement and commercial …