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3 hours ago, chalawaan said:

The only thing more bizarre than these tragic tales is the way they're reported. 

 

How does one undress diagnostically? Sounds like what you'd do for a prostate exam.

Probably mean they used scissor to cut up his clothes so they could assess the extent of his injuries before moving him...just a guess

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Pattaya to become the next Miami and on a par with Singapore and Dubai, says mayor

 

Miami. File photo for reference only

 

Pattaya Mayor Sonthaya Khunplume has revealed ambitious plans to transform the resort into a truly world class tourist destination, on a par with the likes of Dubai, Singapore and Miami.

 

Speaking to Sophon Cable TV on Tuesday, Mr Sonthaya said that the project to develop the resort (dubbed Neo Pattaya) will play an important role in the Eastern Economic Corridor, which aims to spur business, investment and development throughout the eastern seaboard.

 

When tourism finally resumes, more quality tourists, generating even more income will visit the resort, Mr Sonthaya predicted.

 

Eventually, Pattaya will become not only a better place for tourists, but will be much improved for people living and working in the city.

 

The mayor cited Singapore, Dubai and Miami as examples for Pattaya to follow in its bid to become a world class resort, which eventually would include an exciting nightlife, lots of activities for families and a diverse economy.

 

The mayor added that Old Town Naklua, Koh Larn, Bali Hai Pier, Khao Thap Phraya, Pattaya Beach Walk and Jomtien Beach have all been earmarked for redevelopment, in addition to the upgrades planned for Walking Street.

 

The news comes as local officials and business leaders, including the mayor himself, were told Pattaya must end its reliance on foreign tourism. 

 

 

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Well go for it...aim for the sky will take effort for sure

Its 300 baht get over it...yes it has a bad ring to it...andbthey can just include that in the visa fee for preapproved tourist visas and have that for visa on arrivals as an fee. And have it as a temporary scheme until this crisis is over.

But I doubt Thailand will have 10 million tourists this year...yeah they have started vaccinations but we don't know how effective it is yet...

On 12/21/2020 at 10:23 AM, cooked said:

Thanks. Without going into detail, I disagree with about 50% of what is noted here. Tomatoes during the rainy season? Maybe OK, but you'd need to cover. Who plants bamboo every year? etc. Cabbage? This doesn't look as though it's adapted to Thai gardening at all, where's the Pak Choi, Chinese cabbage, turmeric and ginger, chili? AND Soya? 

This is actually based on what many of the organic commercial growers here in Thailand that we work with do, so this is from their experience and something that we do also...I have successfully planted out tomatoes all through the year. One of our largest tomato growers that we work closely with export to Singapore, Taiwan and the middle east. If you want to grow good quality tomatoes i would recommend to grow in greenhouse/nethouse to avoid using to much pesticides and herbicides etc. In most provinces wood vinegar and neemoil wont be enough to keep pests away especially during rain season.

Alot of the best organic vegetables grown in Thailand is sold on export only.

About bamboo does it have to be planted every year to have a recommendation? 

As for Pak Choi, Chinese cabbage, turmeric and ginger, chili and Soya. I can add it to the list later. I have got a few private messages about things like that also. Do you have any other things you want to add to the list?

Most question I get on planting date is normally for plant not really native to the Thai climate.

On 12/21/2020 at 1:02 PM, djayz said:

Thanks. 

You've used different colours for the plants. Do they have any meaning? 

Just to make it easier to read

1 hour ago, Evolare said:

I have just had a small course this weekend for some local garderners/homegrowers this weekend and we have some material that we compiled

and I have this in English and in Thai. But here is the English version is a planting chart 1page thats easy to print. It might be different from what posted above

but its commonly accepted

 

BGS - Planting Schedule.pdf 53.51 kB · 2 downloads

I uploaded the wrong version of the file this is the correct version but cant edit the post
 

BGS - Planting Schedule - Thailand.pdf

I have just had a small course this weekend for some local garderners/homegrowers this weekend and we have some material that we compiled

and I have this in English and in Thai. But here is the English version is a planting chart 1page thats easy to print. It might be different from what posted above

but its commonly accepted

BGS - Planting Schedule.pdf

Yeah i have a handful of customers who lost their farms and land from Chatree one was a glorious organic Mango orchard...and as usually got paid Below market price.

About time!

If cleanup is done in collaborstion with divecenters etc. It will be good and when cleanup is done look at how cuba has been protecting their marinelife. Think what you want about Fidel but he was an avid scuba diver and because of that the water and marine life was highly protected.

And its not difficult for dive centers to give instructions to their divers. This zone no underwaterphotography with flash as it damages corals. In these areas dont touch anything. Breaking corals come with hefty fines. Dont take up anything unless its garbage etc. The marine environments can be maintained and preserved. Around the islands alot of corals are not damaged by fishing alone but also by all boat taxis that go straight over them braking corals with the boats and especially their propellers.

This huge chinese subs is a very easy target if their in the gulf of Thailand on the westcoats andaman sea having a larger sub can make more sense but would not be ideal for even that area for border protection if that is the major case they are buying them for. The the SAAB A26 line of submarines would be much more suitable and they could get 10 units of the A26 submarine for every Chinese sub they are buying but not as much pocket money. And in exercises with the US navy among other the SAAB submarines were undetectable and if the US Navy cant beat them other Navies for sure wont. 

What is the figure if counting Q2? 100% down?

2 hours ago, hotchilli said:

As far as I'm aware no-one has said anyone has to leave... they've said the amnesty period will end on Sept 26th. Anyone on amnesty, needing an extension of stay or renewing visa's need to do it before that date.

With no domestic infections for 50+ days it's now safe to see all foreigners at the immigration offices.

They said the grace period ends on sept 26

And that you have to visit an immigration office before then. If you haven't fixed it by then you will be considered on overstay and can be blacklisted 8s what they have said but they will approve at least 30 days extensions if visit immigration so if you visit immigration by then you can get another 30 days. Unless it changes again which is possibke depending on what happens with the entire covid situation

12 hours ago, IvGeg said:

Chiang Rai and Chiang Mai are the most suitable areas due to logistics. Yes, hose on reels is the one. However, I'm not familiar with the most common practices so it might be adjusted for economical reasons. A system of pipes with sprinklers might be a good solution, but it might be not suitable if the roots of plants will require extraction. And it will be some hassle to pick up all sprinklers and then bring the tractor there. In best case scenario it's a system on arduino with connected soil and weather sensors that might turn the system on and off depends on conditions. 

Hose on reels is only suitable for huge flats lands drip irrigation or subsoil irrigation might be better suited for herbs...drip lines can be rolled in before harvesting.

arduino automation is not a bad idea I have a the parts for a system but they are still in boxes...well see when I get around to it. ????  I have an field with all parts supplied by Netafim except for the automation which they said is still a year away from being ready, and thats why I bought the ardunio stuff... 

On 7/18/2020 at 6:44 AM, IvGeg said:

Thank you for your questions. At the beginning the idea is to find a suitable plot of land based on existing conditions. If it will be economically viable then adjust accordingly to the product. For the start it will be primarily outdoor with few greennouses and hydroponics facilities for further tests with intension to extend them in future. In terms of mechanisation and irrigation start with basics. Like a tractor with few attachments. For irrigation I'm trying to look at areas close to rivers with relatively easy available water. Dig some channels around the field, install pumps, connected to sprinklers on wheels. Plant types are not finalised yet. 

 

Any thoughts on the legal aspects of such business, please? Is it possible if someone from local administration might see a foreigner doing business and decide to pop up one day and give a hint about brown envelope? 

As for legal aspect if you do it correctly most herbs are not limited for Thais to grow. Is it possible local administration will want some hush money yes absolutely but if your doing everything by the book legally you can tell them to <deleted> OFF, essentially if they can they will try. So make sure you got all grounds covered.

Rivers and klongs many times have quite contaminated water so some herbs might not be suitable for extraction or something like it. that also goes for the soil in farmlands here unless its been organic so as for Irrigation like CLW said digging a well can be a good idea.

2 minutes ago, scoupeo said:

Do what you want, nobody cares ! If you would see my plants growing, you would envy me ❤️

 

 

Sounds good show us what you growing!

3 hours ago, IvGeg said:

CLW, thank you. It is good advice to start with trading and explore the market availability first. The plan is to go for few months around Thailand and explore different opportunities. Chat to people, find few friends who would like to improve their English and earn some money for their time and help with thai translation, maybe collect some data and soil samples for a composition analysis to develop better strategy on how to increase the profitability of the case. 

 

Probably it is about right terms and conditions beforehand. Kidding, I read too much about broken guys on forums to get into it. However, there is always a chance that both of you fall deeply in love and have same values and goals in life to start something serious.

 

I'm just trying to understand is there a list of "Thai medicinal herbs", or any medicinal herb growed in Thailand automatically become a part of that list.

 

Can anyone advise me on how many workers required per 1rai/ 1ha and their wages (~13500thb/mnth?) in the north part of the country.  Thank you guys.

I'm happy to answer question not been answered yet, I actually have a business that is one of the larger suppliers of rawmaterial for feed and organic fertilizers and amendments in Thailand we also provide agricultural consulting services for all kinds of farms such which includes soil tests etc. I have tested soils in close to 350 farms in the last 2 years. As for herbs we have hundreds of customers in that field alone growing anything from turmeric, and ginger to cannabis.

Plus that we have our own growing operations in Nakhon Pathom, Ratchaburi and Kanchanaburi. and developing some show-grow around one of our factories.

But to be able to answer your questions I have a few questions:
What "Thai medicinal herbs" are you talking about? (different herbs require different amount of attention, you can PM me if you don't want to talk about it in the forum.)
What degree of automation and mechanization, irrigation are you considering?
You want to grow in greenhouse or purely outdoors?

Will you grow in engineered soils or in native soils?

Thais in general will be difficult to get even in the North as laborers in the farm more and more of them has taken jobs in factories or other type of businesses, they want to be out of the sun. 

But minimum salary is around 320-350 baht per day for non-skilled labor. But getting people who want to work at the rate is another issue. If you want skilled workers salaries will be higher. If you want a farm manager who studied at Agricultural university and who speak English that you can communicate with for that salary will start around 25K +/- 5K. 

How many workers do you need if you would consider 1 worker in the western world per a certain piece of land I would say consider at least 2-3 people to do the same job here as workers they tend to be less effective here especially if you don't have cameras and management supervising them. 

9 hours ago, CraigInBangkok said:

Can't be a pure landrace strain must be crossed with an earlier finisher or its a very rare phenotype

 

Also my wife is wondering what happened to the "thai household can grow 6 plants" law? Is this likely to happen any time soon as the wife is growing impatient. 

Yeah that's not going to happend this year for sure and unlikely next year aswell. 

On 4/26/2020 at 8:55 PM, kickstart said:

Famerjo had some soil tested very comprehensive, tested all the minerals  and trace elements,(his soil had a lot of Aluminum for some reason).

All done in Thailand cost I think was 6000 baht . 

We charge 5000 baht for a wide spectrum analysis including an Rx and shipping to the US (cost for EMS ~2000thb) or 3500 if an Rx is not wanted. 

Anyway Aluminium in general doesn't have a impact on the soil health overall if you look on ppm range in soils the lowest I have tested to date is 367 ppm and the highest being 2030 ppm and the second highest being 1181 ppm. with an average at 649 ppm from a total of 281 soil tests to date. 

With one exception if the soil is a acidic low pH soils and you have a high concentration of aluminium then it can cause toxicity and damage roots in the soil. I have only one case, a orange orchard that had problems with Aluminium toxicity. Agronomists and some other "experts" where blaming the issue on HLB, but after doing plant tissue testing HLB was not detected in any of the samples. But our soiltest revealed that the pH was 4.2 which is low even for citrus trees and 2030 ppm of aluminium. which wilted the roots and killed almost half the orchard. after the soil balance had been restored through amendments with the proper nutrients and the soil pH had increased to a 5.6-5.8 range. the impact that aluminium solubilization had on the trees had ended.

However the owner of the orchard culled the remaining trees and planted another variety in the end as the damage to the roots where too extensive and it would take years for the trees to recover. 

2 hours ago, doggie1955 said:

I love science based methods, that is why I have been working with Quantum biology with one Professor from one University in Florida, and one Professor from a different

University with a new light system using far red. Also I think Dave Rockwood is on the right track with Agrisource. If you are not up on the new science of what is going on in the world, you will be left behind as a cannabis grower...

Agreed love science based methods,

I'm not familiar with Dave Rockwoods work specifically but I see they have solutions for data-driven agriculture.

12 hours ago, doggie1955 said:

 

On owning 33%, Yes it is true... The Thai National Farmers Council is trying to grow cannabis, one of the biggest problems the Thai's are having is that they do not have any

Master Growers work or teaching them how to grow the right way. Some of the problems has been growing in soil with high levels of heavy metals, bugs, unsafe pesticides,

using the right lights, building the right greenhouses, water, more bugs... well I can go on and on, but I will leave it here.

I have been told by Thai's that they have the best cannabis and hemp in the world right here in Thailand... lol

 

 

I'm sorry but your sadly misinformed on this,

They actually have several Master growers (both Thai and Farang) and the plot they grow on has been under organic operation for over 25 years and had zero heavy metals, no residuals of any harmful pesticides or fungicides. I know this because i'm the one who tested their soils and their potting medium they use in the greenhouse. Nor do they use any unsafe pesticides. We supplied most of the organic nutrients for their grow except for some things like wormcastings, woodvinegar and the compostteas that their mastergrowers with team produces themself. Not only that their first harvest was donated for free for the Hospital that they supply. Not a bad first harvest either I might say.

The only issue they had with their soils was some elements were out of balance and had some deficiencies but its in the top 5 of all soils I have tested in Thailand and 1 out of 32 that was free of any heavy metals, (yes I have a database where I store all the soil data). last year we tested about 150 farms.

On 4/25/2020 at 3:34 AM, Saraburi121 said:

Thanks all for advice, your info gives me some work to do.  It looks like Anthracnose from the pictures I looked at on the net.  Will spray them with Bacillus subtilis and see how that goes.  I have been using a small amount of 15-15-15 so that may add to the problem.  Maybe at the end of this year work some cow poop into the soil.  Soil is well drained and will look into doing a soil test if its not too expensive.  I just grow for fun and folks in the village plus I love chilis, any kind.  I have grown thai chilis in Japan, Singapore (apartment balcony) Hawaii and the US, seems like it takes some time to break the code on growing healthy chilis in each different areas.   Been looking on Lazada to find some hybrid seed to no avail, will keep looking.  Will post some pictures and update on the results.  Evalore, very informative post!  

if your soil is heavy clay even incorporating sand and / or rice husk, rice husk ash / besides the cow poop can be beneficial to improve drainage and texture of the soil without braking the bank.

For basic testing if your only interested in a basic NPK and pH labs like in Maejo university or any agricultural uni can do it. They start at about 500 baht and can go up to over 10.000. For a wide range test like what we do that includes also includes CEC, pH, sulfur, magnesium, calcium, sodium, boron, iron, manganese, zinc and copper etc that costs around 5000 and the analysis is done by a lab in the US with a full Rx. There is one lab in Thailand that can make tests like that but they are very expensive they charge a little over 23.000 for the same test. We use lab in the US as they have faster turnaround time and is more reliable if when considering the shipping time.

8 hours ago, Hempseedman said:

My supplier has an import license and they get some of their cannabis from California legally but most of it is grown here. I literally think I have probably found the best cannabis in Thailand! I usually buy 5 bottles a pop and it’s much better than the stuff they sold me a year ago it’s improved a lot. 

If they have a licence do you mind sharing their info, link to website or something like that?

3 hours ago, doggie1955 said:

Thai FDA

Do you have a link for that information?

But i'm pretty sure that is the hemp then 0,1% THC products for 800 growers then

Can I ask where you got the information that they will Issue 800 licences for growing medical cannabis? Is it a secret source or something publicly announced?

I might have missed it but I know some of the people on the approvals committee and I sell organic fertilizers and have done soil and media testing for several groups that are trying to get a licence, and for a very few that already have licences.

But I haven't talked with them for a few days.

What one member on the approvals committee told me is that the licence cost is 3 million baht for 150 cannabis plants. One license that already has been approved and that have delivered its first crop for free to the hospital on their MOU has a licence for 1200 plants. Which is larger than most will get. And their whole operation including nursery is much smaller than 10 rai. 

Or are you talking Hemp with THC around 0.1%?