webfact Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 Photo: PR Phuket By The Phuket News PHUKET: Officers investigating the encroachment on 108 rai in the protected forest reserve in the hills above the Bang Wad reservoir have now seized cocoa trees from a small plantation that was planted after the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) took on the case to investigate the encroachment as a special case. Officers received a tip-off about the new plantation, covering just over one rai, said a report by the Phuket office of the Public Relations Department (PR Phuket) posted today (July 28). The officers inspected the site and found 200 cocoa trees planted in the area covering 108 rai in protected forest that is already under investigation for encroachment, said the report. Full story: https://www.thephuketnews.com/cocoa-trees-seized-as-new-plantation-found-in-bang-wad-protected-national-forest-80845.php -- © Copyright Phuket News 2021-07-28 - Whatever you're going through, the Samaritans are here for you - Follow ASEAN NOW on LINE for breaking COVID-19 updates 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Screaming Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 Thailand is the country of squatters and encroachments. It happens everywhere. In the forests, along the clongs and water, roads, sidewalks. Anywhere where a Thai can make a profit. Nothing is sacred in Thailand. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFishman1 Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 I think it was all just a misunderstanding Tit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nobodysfriend Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 My neighbors just fenced in some 41 rai of land that does not belong to them . We checked it at the land office . The owner lives far away in Rayong ( some say he died already ) , and never comes here . My wife just got a letter from the land office that she will need to sign a paper that allows the neighbor to register that 41 rai as Nor Sor 3 Kor under their name ... ? I think they paid some corrupt person at the land office . My wife will not sign anything . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianthainess Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 Aren't these flour trees, have a word with a certain captain, he'll sniff them out. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Tracy Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 Standard practise here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natway09 Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 Incidently, not only Thailand, my mate had over 200 (you know what) plants thriving in a National Forest for years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PETERTHEEATER Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 Just how IS a cocoa tree seized? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chalawaan Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 These names... Bang Sue, Hot, Bang Wad, Hang Dong, and my personal fave, Nong Hoi... Did somebody hire Larry Flynt to think these up? Mind you, Hong Kong was good for a few fun street names too. Knowing the Thai word for jerking off, I could not avoid a schoolboy snigger upon visiting Fuk Chak St. in Kowloon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chalawaan Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 (edited) 15 minutes ago, PETERTHEEATER said: Just how IS a cocoa tree seized? Ask the RTP tree-hugging division. Seriously though, Cocoa is a rare and pricey commodity, it's an agricultural step in the right direction if It can be grown here, although probably not on State Forest land. Edited July 29, 2021 by chalawaan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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