Three-Month Burn Ban Put in Place to Curb Haze, Wildfire

[webfact]

BANGKOK, Feb 17 (TNA) – Prime Minister and Defense Minister Gen. Prayut Chan-ocha ordered the implementation of any possible measures to keep wildfire under control and seek cooperation from all concerned localities to observe no-burning rule from February1 to April 30.

Those who violate the rule will be penalized, said Deputy Secretary-General to the Prime Minister and Acting Government Spokesperson Anucha Burapachaisri.

 

Concerned agencies are also urged to work proactively to create public awareness. If the situation is not better, plan adjustment will be necessary to beef up related measures.

 

Full story: https://tna.mcot.net/english-news-1116972

 

-- © Copyright Thai News Agency 2023-02-17

 

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[Emdog]

"Gen. Prayut Chan-ocha ordered the implementation of any possible measures to keep wildfire under control..."

Field burnings are now considered "wildfires"? So hard to keep up....

[JoePai]

Great job...

 

 

[SST3D]

So soon…?

[ThailandRyan]

51 minutes ago, webfact said:

Those who violate the rule will be penalized, said Deputy Secretary-General to the Prime Minister and Acting Government Spokesperson Anucha Burapachaisri.

How did that work last year or the year before when they implemented no burning...answer, it didn't, they still burned and at night.....car covered in ash here in HH, and it's under a car port......pool had ash in it. Was going to buy a pool cover but then why the cover would be covered in ash and it would get into the pool anyway....

[Joseph98765]

The only one who is taking seriously all this is the Wind and the rain, great weather now in Chiang Mai...maybe tomorrow we will have it back.

[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Concerned agencies are also urged to work proactively to create public awareness. If the situation is not better, plan adjustment will be necessary to beef up related measures.

Pathetic.

[arick]

But can burn everything like burning  sugar can this morning.  

[edwinchester]

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.

[rudi49jr]

If I’m not mistaken, this no-burn rule has been in place for years, and it’s never been enforced, at least not seriously. Like it is with most rules and laws in Thailand. Authorities are useless, RTP are useless and every winter millions of people in the north breathe in that wonderful pristine air and develop respiratory diseases for the rest of their lives.

[Will B Good]

What is he expecting farmers to do with all the sugarcane leaves?

[Will B Good]

The government are currently burning off about 10 square miles of heavy vegetation near us,  before they then plan to flood the land....!!!

[Denim]

3 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

What is he expecting farmers to do with all the sugarcane leaves?

Burn them surreptitiously instead of brazenly and put it down to an accident or misunderstanding.

[Burma Bill]

53 minutes ago, edwinchester said:

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.

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!

 

 

Edited February 17, 2023 by Burma Bill
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[rwill]

Driving from Chiang Mai back to Ratchaburi a few days ago there were burnt fields everywhere.  Smoke seemed the worst around Lampang.

[Cake Monster]

And as usual, those responsible for starting the Fires, whether they are Crop fires or Forest fires will be hunted down and prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

NOT !

[brommers]

Who is going to enforce this? Certainly not the senior police officer who is my neighbour and burns his garden refuse. He obviously has no knowledge of the regulations and definitely not of the health hazards because he leaves his house windows open 24/7 and is frequently coughing and spitting phlegm in his garden.

[worgeordie]

Every year it's the same ......statements made ,no burning , but never backed up

with anything ,all words , they need to catch and make examples of these arsonists,

they are affecting people's health , at the moment the wife is badly affected by the

smoke, she has antihistamines from the doctor ,but still suffering.

 

The powers that be know what's going to happen and when ,it's not like a natural

disaster ,that you cannot see coming , they need to be proactive ,maybe if they

arrest some aronists and put them in jail for a few years ,it would let the burners know 

that they are serious about this problem , proactive + Thailand has to be an oxymoron ....

 

regards worgeordie

 

 

 

 

[edwinchester]

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.

[zzaa09]

4 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Pathetic.

Can't rescind, overnight, traditional acts that have been practiced for ages. 

All of a sudden it's an issue. 

Quick fixes rarely pay off.

[MrJ2U]

Ridiculous. 

 

Same talk every year.   

 

Not much a farmer can do.   They get so little money from the few families who actually control the trade of buying the product that it's impossible to clear the land responsibly and make enough money to survive. 

[ripstanley]

In Phayao they stopped the smoke haze over night. We had a big storm last night and then steady rain all night. The mountains looked great today.

[kickstart]

5 hours ago, Will B Good said:

What is he expecting farmers to do with all the sugarcane leaves?

Do what they do in my area and some others, bale it to big bales, it goes for biomass, or at our local mill gets used as fuel for boiling molasses.

No cane is burnt in our area, so it can be done

[mikebell]

22 hours ago, webfact said:

Those who violate the rule will be penalized,

By whom?  How hard can it be to follow a plume of smoke to its source and arrest the landowner?  Police won't leave their A/C air-filtered offices to inhale carcinogenic smoke; that's only for the serfs.

[Captor]

14 hours ago, kickstart said:

Do what they do in my area and some others, bale it to big bales, it goes for biomass, or at our local mill gets used as fuel for boiling molasses.

No cane is burnt in our area, so it can be done

What area is that?

[Burma Bill]

45 minutes ago, Captor said:

What area is that?

With respect, I would also like to know. Where I lived there were two large Mitrphol sugar refineries, one in Nong Rue and the other near Chumphae. All I ever witnessed were stacks of sugar canes entering, never any large bales, biomass or otherwise. Canes in - sugar and molasses out!!

[Mr Meeseeks]

On 2/17/2023 at 10:48 AM, Emdog said:

"Gen. Prayut Chan-ocha ordered the implementation of any possible measures to keep wildfire under control..."

Field burnings are now considered "wildfires"? So hard to keep up....

They have different fires in Thailand, as foreigners we don't understand.

[nauseus]

20 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!

 

 

Mind the cables. Somchai! Oops....to late! But seriously, those who say sugar is bad for you may be more right than they realize.

[Wanderer555]

Last night the Forest temple across the road decided to burn the forest…

 

????????????

[farmerjo]

7 hours ago, Burma Bill said:

With respect, I would also like to know. Where I lived there were two large Mitrphol sugar refineries, one in Nong Rue and the other near Chumphae. All I ever witnessed were stacks of sugar canes entering, never any large bales, biomass or otherwise. Canes in - sugar and molasses out!!

In this area you talk of it started last season and has increased this year.

Where i live west of Chumphae we have a biomass plant scheduled to be built for electricity.

 

Somchai might have a different view to many on here like why can't i burn one day a year when all these people drive around in vehicles 12 months a year.

Edited February 18, 2023 by farmerjo