Rare ‘Pink Lady’ rice field draws visitors

By The Nation

 

 

Netizens have widely shared a phenomenal photo of a pink rice field in Phitsanulok, wondering if it was for real. It certainly is.

 

The pink rice field is owned by Naresuan University alumnus Jaturong Chomphusa, who turned his back on an office job three years ago to become a farmer.

 

 

During harvesting, he found pink Riceberry rice in his field and conducted an experiment four times on the strain, resulting in a four-square-metre pink rice field. He named the variety Pink Lady.

 

 

After planting, Pink Lady took 120 days to be ready for harvesting.

 

The rice seeds are plump and short in length, similar to Japanese rice but plumper. Each kilogram fetches a price of Bt80.

 

Jaturong said Rice Research Centre staff came to inspect the quality of the rice and found that the grains mutated into an exciting colour. The staff took a picture and uploaded it to social media, which has drawn the attention of netizens.

 

Now people and even villagers are travelling to the rice field daily to catch a glimpse of the rare Pink Lady.

 

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/travel/30380254

 

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13 minutes ago, webfact said:

Each kilogram fetches a price of Bt80

And now everyone is planning toplant this rice, and make the prices fall to 16 baht per kilo. Same like they always do with rubber, other rice, water melons, sugar cane as well as sunflowers and everything inbetween. After that they wonder what happened and complain to the goverment to get extra money in form of subsidies becuase they a struggling with their livelihood. It´s called overproduction, but that is beyond the level of intelligence on this side of the planet.

However, the rice field was very beautiful.

I trust he owns the rights to the rice genetic DNA , he should register it quick smart before Monsanto get a sample. and sue him for using their mutation 

 

Note to The Nation:  there's a big difference between four square metres and four metres square.

2 hours ago, Matzzon said:

very beautiful

all that  matters  remember

41 minutes ago, mahjongguy said:

Note to The Nation:  there's a big difference between four square metres and four metres square.

Yep. This is 4 metres squared not four squared metres.

Wonder if this is being fed to the dying prisoners ? 

 

The selfies time again.

9 hours ago, webfact said:

The rice seeds are plump and short in length,

A bit like the PM's right hand man  !

Bet you anything farmers are already mixing pink dye in their backyards. Nothing like a good price bump.

Yingluck will be back to nick it. 

10 hours ago, Matzzon said:

And now everyone is planning toplant this rice, and make the prices fall to 16 baht per kilo. Same like they always do with rubber, other rice, water melons, sugar cane as well as sunflowers and everything inbetween. After that they wonder what happened and complain to the goverment to get extra money in form of subsidies becuase they a struggling with their livelihood. It´s called overproduction, but that is beyond the level of intelligence on this side of the planet.

However, the rice field was very beautiful.

So negative.

 

Could you explain me how they would be planting this rice as its specially selected by its owner and by selective growing. Its not as if they can get seeds for this rice easy.

 

Otherwise your disaster theory would have worked. 

4 hours ago, robblok said:

So negative.

 

Could you explain me how they would be planting this rice as its specially selected by its owner and by selective growing. Its not as if they can get seeds for this rice easy.

 

Otherwise your disaster theory would have worked. 

You seem to be very knowledgeble about this rice. Can you then explain how my wifes father can plant the same?

However, you are a little bit right about the difficulty to plant it, because it will not grow in all places as well as it´s one of the hardest rice crops to farm.

 

This kind of selective thing like you hear, is about same true as all department stores in Thailand is selling the real brands. 

But one thing I am sure over, is that everyone is going to try to grow this rice now, and then enough going to succeed to crash the market as usual.

5 hours ago, Happy Grumpy said:

Yingluck will be back to nick it. 

Pink Lady herself.

Cool story.