Farmers nationwide plan ahead to tackle summer drought crisis

PHRAE, 4 February 2016 (NNT) - Farmers in Phrae province have built a small island with sandbags in the middle of the Yom River to raise water levels so the water can be pumped into farmlands.

The 110 meter long island was built by a group of farmers from Song, Nong Muang Khai and Mueang districts. The measure was also in line with government policy to promote greater public participation in national development.

The water is being pumped from the river into the adjacent canal, which is managed under a water conservation project to supply water to eight sub-districts in Song district.

In Pichit province, a caravan of trucks carrying water has been dispatched to help residents in Tap Khlo district, who suffer from water shortages. They are expected to receive a continuous supply of water until May this year.

Farmers in Uthai Thani province have been urged to dispose of rice straw and stubble residue by burying instead of burning it, to provide the next generation of crops essential nutrients in the soil. This will also avoid air pollution and potential wildfires.

Meanwhile, an anti-drought training program will be held in Khun Han district in Si Sa Ket province to teach 250 farmers how to increase and maintain their productivity in the current economy and climate.


-- NNT 2016-02-04

One of the things I noticed here is that Thais like to use poison to kill plants when their crops are finished. Then they buy fertilizer after they burn the dead plants. It is like they don't or cant comprehend that buy cutting and leaving it to rot is natures own fertilizer for the soil. In my own thai family farm I have begun to have my whole farm cease using.poisonous smoke to kill everything and instead I.have it cut down and left there. Also they want to.plant their whole farm always. Never leaving anything empty without plants. They do this all year long. Basically raping the land from the needed nutrients to continue being viable for plant growth. Schools teach like farming techniques so this is a yearly cycle which in the future will eventually destroy the soil and ruin thialands farming altogether.

I just hope that this water diversion to send more to where they want does not affect other farming communities who are dependent on that water source as well

Farmers nationwide plan ahead to tackle summer drought crisis

I just love how the National News Bureau of Thailand, a bureau of the govt Public Relations Department makes the headline sound like all farmers have the drought under control....not a problem...no complaints...no worries....the govt is on top of the problem.

One of the things I noticed here is that Thais like to use poison to kill plants when their crops are finished. Then they buy fertilizer after they burn the dead plants. It is like they don't or cant comprehend that buy cutting and leaving it to rot is natures own fertilizer for the soil. In my own thai family farm I have begun to have my whole farm cease using.poisonous smoke to kill everything and instead I.have it cut down and left there. Also they want to.plant their whole farm always. Never leaving anything empty without plants. They do this all year long. Basically raping the land from the needed nutrients to continue being viable for plant growth. Schools teach like farming techniques so this is a yearly cycle which in the future will eventually destroy the soil and ruin thialands farming altogether.

I just hope that this water diversion to send more to where they want does not affect other farming communities who are dependent on that water source as well

Sorry, but why do you need to poison plants, if you are going to burn ? I have never heard this. There is nothing wrong with using fertilizer, unless you want to grow organic farm products. But remember that fertilizers and pesticides stay in the soil for many years.