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22 minutes ago, PremiumLane said:

They need to help farmers get the machinery needed for harvesting, or help them with wages for more labour. Just fining them isn't going to do anything, they burn it cos it is cheaper to do that, or they can't afford other methods. 

 

It's not cheaper. My wife's friend makes more money selling an unburnt crop. It's the cutting teams who want to burn as it's quicker to do the job so they move onto the next and make more money.

1 hour ago, Thailand said:

Massive fines  of the owners of the land where the burning takes place, not just sugar cane fields.

 

 

Bit harsh on the growers who don't want to burn but have their crop torched by the cutting team who just want to do a quick job and move on to the next.

Easiest solution is to make it illegal to buy burnt cane. The problem would disappear overnight.

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Couple of years ago wifey and I were in the local bus station and a Thai lady asked my wife where the bus to Bangkok left from as her English husband needed to get to the airport for a flight back to the UK. Wifey and the lady got on well and they swapped phone numbers. Three days later my wife got a call from the lady who was worried about her husband as he'd promised to call as soon as he got back home and she'd heard nothing. She asked me to try his UK number to find out if he was ok. So I give, let's call him Ian, a call and ask if I can talk with Ian as his Thai wife is worried and wants to talk. The lady on the line says, 'what do you mean Thai wife?' and before I can answer she shouts out 'MUM!!!!' I listened to a family arguing for about a minute before the phone line went dead.

Never heard from Ian or his wife again.

44 minutes ago, worgeordie said:

Somethings are best not bought online , fingers been one of them.

 

regards Worgeordie

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3 hours ago, Burma Bill said:

Yes indeed. Where I lived in rural Khon Kaen, burning sugar cane during the harvest was a nightly event - vehicles/people could not be seen. Every morning, I would wake to ash and burnt plant debris around and on the house. At first, it was burning the leaves and other debris left after the harvest, nowadays the fields are burnt to remove the dry leaves before harvesting leaving just the canes which can be cut more efficiently. More canes (without leaves) can then be stacked on a lorry providing a much better payload! This practice will never stop, whatever "distant" Bangkok decrees!

 

 

Where we live sometimes it's next to impossible to get a cutting team without agreeing to burn the crop so they can get it done quickly and so move on to the next job. A couple of wifeys friends grow cane and don't want to burn because they make more money that way. An easy solution is to ban the processing factories from buying burnt cane. To make cane burning illegal but ok the buying of burnt cane is madness.

Laughing my <deleted> donkey off!

Nobody with the ability to change things gives a <deleted>. I was woken up at 4 am this morning by one of the adjacent sugarcane fields going up in flames. In the distance the sky was glowing orange in several places. Too difficult to catch say the police. Will never change with that attitude.

10 hours ago, Artisi said:

Seems these people don't want to be Thai but are more than happy to be connected with the Thai electricity grid, water, roads, health etc., typical attitude - us us us. 

I'm sure they'd be much happier to be enjoying Malaysian electricity, water, roads and healthcare but that choice was taken from the ethnic Malays a century ago.

6 hours ago, redsongthaew said:

Very heavily fine any sugarcane mill that purchased any burnt sugarcane. Without buyers the farmers would not burn their crops.

 

Then actually enforce the law.

Burning is illegal, buying burnt cane is not, go figure that out. The problem will disappear if it were illegal for factories to buy burnt cane as suggested.

As an aside one of wifeys friends grows sugarcane. Last year she didn't want to burn the cane as the mill pays more for unburnt. The night before it was due to be cut the whole lot went up in flames. The labourers burnt it as it makes it alot easier to cut, quicker so they can rapidly move on to the next cutting job.

This year she arranged for a mechanical cutter.

1 hour ago, Damrongsak said:

" ... Dead at the scene from shooting and stabbing were a Hmong husband and wife and three children who had the surname of the father. ... ".

 

The emphasis is mine, but I don't quite know what to think of this.  I know Hmong can be hard-headed and a bit "out-there", but what is the deal with slaughtering a whole family!?

Here in Kanchanaburi I only know a few Hmong and they're friendly and very hard working.

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