Smart farms get boost as pilot project extended

By The Nation

 

 

The director of the Bureau of Energy Efficiency Promotion Sarat Prakobchart announced this week the extension of the smart farm demonstration project that promotes the use of technology to increase the efficiency of energy usage to include farmers raising poultry, pigs, cattle and fish. 

 

“This project will help farmers to access and use the benefits offered by modern agricultural technologies, especially renewable energy,” he said. “We have now opened the registration process for ranch owners to receive financial assistance from the energy conservation and promotion fund. We will select at least 30 farmers for the project divided into 4 categories: poultry, pig and cattle ranches, and aquatic animal farms.”

 

According to project’s rules and conditions, farmers who are qualified will be provided support up to Bt900,000 or not more than 30 per cent of investment.

“The maximum requirements per ranch are 50,000 poultry, 5,000 pigs or 500 cattle. As for aquatic animals, the selected farm must not be classified as a controlled building or factory under the Energy Conservation Promotion Act 1992 (revised 2007) to join the project,” he said.

 

Sarat added that his bureau will also send specialists to provide advice to the selected farmers.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30377015

 

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8 hours ago, webfact said:

“The maximum requirements per ranch are 50,000 poultry, 5,000 pigs or 500 cattle.

No minimum requirement ?

15 minutes ago, Srikcir said:

No minimum requirement ?

As a  pilot  scheme perhaps it is more practical  to announce measurable assistance and funding to the average established shareholder connected projects than it is to provide same to  private individuals?

No doubt  massive solar  farms established  behind  already profitable  pork/poultry farms can provide positive statistics in many terms of benificience in profit increases? Similar outcomes in housed beef production established via tax paid  funding?

Having established the benefit  an extension of the "pilot" scheme  is  thus  justifiable  perhaps repeatedly?

There need  be a  cut off point for the application of such schemes for those who  fall under deemed measurable viability. They would  be those  who  have  10 >  499 cattle, 100 >10,000  chickens, 20> 4900 pigs.

Those over or under the  criteria are  unlikely to be  in the  category of  policy associated  interest by virtue of the very well defined "interest" in results.

It would be unwise to assume tat there is any preferential criteria involved in any  such  schemes  despite it being  quite obvious  at times it  may seem  that  the application of such is limited  to those  who already have an established  if not  monopolistic position in acquired agricultural production .

Tsk tsk. 

 

 

Let’s put “smart” in context “smart for Thailand” is more appropriate 

Or smart as in smartarse Thai bashing comments.

2 hours ago, Dumbastheycome said:

As a  pilot  scheme perhaps it is more practical  to announce measurable assistance and funding to the average established shareholder connected projects than it is to provide same to  private individuals?

No doubt  massive solar  farms established  behind  already profitable  pork/poultry farms can provide positive statistics in many terms of benificience in profit increases? Similar outcomes in housed beef production established via tax paid  funding?

Having established the benefit  an extension of the "pilot" scheme  is  thus  justifiable  perhaps repeatedly?

There need  be a  cut off point for the application of such schemes for those who  fall under deemed measurable viability. They would  be those  who  have  10 >  499 cattle, 100 >10,000  chickens, 20> 4900 pigs.

Those over or under the  criteria are  unlikely to be  in the  category of  policy associated  interest by virtue of the very well defined "interest" in results.

It would be unwise to assume tat there is any preferential criteria involved in any  such  schemes  despite it being  quite obvious  at times it  may seem  that  the application of such is limited  to those  who already have an established  if not  monopolistic position in acquired agricultural production .

Tsk tsk. 

 

 

Aren't we all supposed to stop eating meat to save the planet?

8 hours ago, Krataiboy said:

Aren't we all supposed to stop eating meat to save the planet?

Only eating veg will increase the human methane levels.... so were screwed either way, personally I'm going out on a full belly of steak, if I have to put my head between my legs to kiss my <deleted> goodbye I don't want "cabbage" to be my last memory !