My neighbours are just harvesting their first bean crop.

They must be ahead of the game.

Pickers get Bht 20 per large bucket picked.

The mechanical bean picker broke the first day harvesting.

With predictions of chocolate shortage I would have thought they'd be looking at cocoa bean production!

I have no idea how long it takes for the trees to mature and bear fruit though, but it has to be an option!

A TVF link from 10 years ago.

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/93427-cocoa/

That was interesting

All this talk about farting... aren't they referring to green beans?

Good news for farmers and beans are better than rice which gives people diabeties!

Alcohol and fructose give people diabetes. Rice has neither. It may be bad for diabetics due to the high load of glucose, but it will not cause diabetes by itself.

My neighbours are just harvesting their first bean crop.

They must be ahead of the game.

Pickers get Bht 20 per large bucket picked.

The mechanical bean picker broke the first day harvesting.

Who does he sell the beans to ? wholesale, supermarkets ?

Alcohol and fructose give people diabetes?

Really?

Good news for farmers and beans are better than rice which gives people diabeties!

That was a joke right? or do you think Thai's will now stop eating rice and stuff themselves with runner beans?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2542951/SUGAR-DETOX-Beware-bagel-not-mention-rice-dried-fruit-crayfish-salad-Theyre-ALL-secretly-sugar-laden-toxic-results-body.html

Alcohol and fructose give people diabetes?

Really?

Very high sugar content in both. Watch the ants gather after you've accidently spilled some of your Chang

Thais need to stop counting on their rice crops as well as rubber and palm oil. Thais also need to learn about planting their crops in different sections of their land and leaving sections unplanted for a year. They are raping the land of its vitamins and minerals and eventually nothing will grow there at all. Their use of commercial nutrients does not supplement what nature provides.

Lots of Thai farmers only own small fields so no space to leave fallow. And the land was raped a long time ago after chemical fertilizers were first introduced.

As for growing other things, how many Thais like beans? Also, if they all start growing melons or whatever, then the market will be flooded and the price will drop, so again the farmers will lose out.

What is a chemical fertilizer.. as far as I know most are phosphate based.. and that is a naturally occurring product. Nothing wrong with fertilizers be they cow dung, or "chemical" ones as you write. The problem is the overuse of the land.

A chemical fertilizer is defined as any inorganic material of wholly or partially synthetic origin that is added to the soil to sustain plant growth. Many artificial fertilizers contain acids, such as sulfuric acid and hydrochloric acid, which tend to increase the acidity of the soil, reduce the soil's beneficial organism population and interfere with plant growth.

All this talk about farting... aren't they referring to green beans?

Nope. Any beans will do it. Oh sorry! That was the dog

Little known fact California products more rice than Thailand ever can per acre And US ranks 4th in exporting of rice reason being is they sell 90% domestically. So If US exported 50% more it would flood the market and lower the value of rice for other countries.

Little known fact California products more rice than Thailand ever can per acre And US ranks 4th in exporting of rice reason being is they sell 90% domestically. So If US exported 50% more it would flood the market and lower the value of rice for other countries.

In looking this up, came across some very interesting reading about rice.

Sagevfoods.com had some good info.

Alcohol and fructose give people diabetes?

Really?

Very high sugar content in both. Watch the ants gather after you've accidently spilled some of your Chang

Sorry, but I can't find anything to substantiate this. Many contributing factors, but fructose and alcohol not mentioned as giving people diabetes.

Where is the market for all these beans? Teaching is good but provide a market for crops other than rice. Farmers would change their produce rapidly if they knew where they could sell it,with rice they know where to go it's a well established market, beans....i'm not so sure, chickens? i know people who have lost money raising chickens to sell eggs, a man in my village is trying ducks he has 20, it is costing him 400 Baht a month in feed and nobody has bought one nor bought the eggs, it isn't easy.

I wished i knew where to buy duckbreastfillet's in BKK. Have been searching but can't find them. In the past Villamarket had them but when i asked them about it recently "Mee Phet mai?" pointing at a chicken the guy run away laughing so i left the shop empty handed.

My oh my. Some people will hate this initiative. How will the voters be bribed now if they are self sufficient and not dependent on hand outs!!

Alcohol and fructose give people diabetes?

Really?

Very high sugar content in both. Watch the ants gather after you've accidently spilled some of your Chang

Sorry, but I can't find anything to substantiate this. Many contributing factors, but fructose and alcohol not mentioned as giving people diabetes.

Fructose and alcohol are both processed very similarly by your liver and both induce insulin resistance, which means your pancreas has to produce more insulin to get the same effect. Long term (or not so long term due to the amount of sugar consumed these days) that leads to Type II diabetes.

'While some farmers are becoming frustrated with their economic situation, there isn’t a lot they can do to express their feelings publicly under military rule, said David Streckfuss, a Thailand-based academic ...' And if they could, it would magically solve the drought?

'“It doesn’t seem like the economic welfare of laborers or small-scale farmers is a huge priority for the government,” ...' Or the government has decided that throwing more of the taxpayers' good money after the bad isn't such a great idea.​

Put the beans in a plastic bag with a Starbucks logo on it and photos of Thai soap stars eating it. And sell to Hiso in Bangkok.

I cant believe there are people on this thread that dont know WHITE rice causes diabetes. What next? Alcohol is not sugar?

I'll go along with living on a diet of excessive consumption of high glycemic foods (white over processed bread, white potatoes and white rice) and drinks with added sweeteners (HIGH fructose corn syrup), laying around and generally being a fat ass is going to seriously contribute to diabetes.

I mis-interpreted the use of fructose as I was thinking fruits... my bad.

My neighbours are just harvesting their first bean crop.

They must be ahead of the game.

Pickers get Bht 20 per large bucket picked.

The mechanical bean picker broke the first day harvesting.

Who does he sell the beans to ? wholesale, supermarkets ?

Sorry I don't know.

They just get hauled away in small trucks,rice style.

Good news for farmers and beans are better than rice which gives people diabeties!

That was a joke right? or do you think Thai's will now stop eating rice and stuff themselves with runner beans?

HA!

And does he think Thais will then start saying "gin bean ruu yang?"

At my farm we try to have such a variety of things grown so that their is an income year-round for the family. Palm oil trees, bananas, mangoes, beans, even Bell peppers. Thais need to stop counting on their rice crops as well as rubber and palm oil. Thais also need to learn about planting their crops in different sections of their land and leaving sections unplanted for a year. They are raping the land of its vitamins and minerals and eventually nothing will grow there at all. Their use of commercial nutrients does not supplement what nature provides.

I have a degree in agriculture and any "farmer" who is worried about crops getting "vitamins" has me wondering if he knows anything about farming.

My neighbours are just harvesting their first bean crop.

They must be ahead of the game.

Pickers get Bht 20 per large bucket picked.

The mechanical bean picker broke the first day harvesting.

Who does he sell the beans to ? wholesale, supermarkets ?

That is always the biggest problem in changing crops.

Hub of flatulence ???