Udon Thani farmers urged not to burn rice straw

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Udon Thani farmers urged not to burn rice straw

 

 

UDON THANI, 20 December 2016 (NNT) - The Udon Thani Provincial Land Office has encouraged rice farmers to bury paddy straw instead of burning it in order to stop global warming. 

Udon Thani Vice President Somwang Phuangbangpho presided over the opening ceremony of a paddy stubble burying campaign in Na Di sub-district. Rice farmers as well as students and teachers in the area also joined the event. 

Udon Thani Provincial Land Office Director Nucharee Kongpolprom said global warming could potentially kill many species that fail to adapt to rising temperatures and trigger adverse weather conditions in many parts of the world. 

In Thailand, the temperature has increased by 1 degree Celsius due to global warming. Nucharee claimed if the temperature rises by 2-4 degrees Celsius in the next 40 years, seasonal typhoons will become stronger and more aggressive by 10%. 

Summer will be longer while winter will be much shorter. She added that burning rice stubble is one of many factors that have worsened global warming. 

The heat generated from the fire can destroy nutrients and micro-organism in the soil that are essential to plants’ growth. The Udon Thani Provincial Land Office; therefore, encourages the farmers to bury the rice straw instead of burning it.

 

-- nnt 2016-12-20

[ratcatcher]

To burn .................................................................or not to burn, that is the question.

 

Many farmers do not have access to a large tractor or are just too lazy to plow under the stubble which enriches the soil.

 

 

[Toknarok]

         A box of matches costs a couple of baht, what's the price per rai to plough? With rice farmers only getting 5 or 6 baht a kilo for their paddy this year many simply cannot afford the cost of ploughing.

        In any event unless the ground is ploughed soon in a couple of months it will be rock hard that even large tractors would have trouble turning the furrow.

[The man from udon]

Why not make it a law like they do in most of the world.then again who would enforce it.should be ploughed back into the soil but the farmers have already worked for nothing growing it and doing another job for the price of a match ain't happening.as for eco stuff,they have no idea what the f,,,k that is.another couple of generations time and it'll sink in when issan is a desert for 10 months a year and a swamp for 2 months.it ain't just Thailand on this one.makes me angry when in the uk they will make you take your vehicle off the road for being a few micrograms over the eu limit and the likes of Asia pollute the world without a thought.

[bark]

They need to use the rice straw and grind it up add ingredients to make bricks, which can be burned by factory in their boilers.  The west does it using saw dust. cheap and good.

[jerome2]

Compost would be great but you must water it and press it with a tractor and keep water it a bit for 2 months

[terminatorchiangmai]

 Only Udon Thani ?

Like said before , this should be the law and should be enforced.

[Clamhua]

Use the straw for livestock fodder...sell it to the cattle farmers and make money

[lungnorm]

Global warming is a HOAX perpetrated by the UN. The rice straw should be used for a variety of things and never burned. Never mind arguing about so called global warming just think about the bloody pollution the smoke creates. It was not that long ago when the King gave every rice farmer an Oxen to eat the rice stubble and so avoiding the need to burn the stuff. But they ate the Oxen instead.

[DekDaeng]

19 minutes ago, lungnorm said:

Global warming is a HOAX perpetrated by the UN. 

 

I've found one! I've found one!

[DekDaeng]

1 hour ago, jerome2 said:

Compost would be great but you must water it and press it with a tractor and keep water it a bit for 2 months

Or, wait for it to rain.

[MJCM]

Use the straw for livestock fodder...sell it to the cattle farmers and make money

The straw has already been made into bales (and put in storage or sold) they are only burning off what is left of it to get their land ready for the next planting season.

[anon467367354]

13 minutes ago, DekDaeng said:

 

I've found one! I've found one!

you found what, someone that does a little bit of research? What does NASA say about it?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2011/07/27/new-nasa-data-blow-gaping-hold-in-global-warming-alarmism/#739efb6355a4

[anon467367354]

I don't know why they don't use the straw to make alcohol and put it in their vehicles, other countries do.

[MJCM]

I don't know why they don't use the straw to make alcohol and put it in their vehicles, other countries do.

They feed their cattle with it.

[louse1953]

1 hour ago, Clamhua said:

Use the straw for livestock fodder...sell it to the cattle farmers and make money

That is already happening.

[elliss]

3 hours ago, bark said:

They need to use the rice straw and grind it up add ingredients to make bricks, which can be burned by factory in their boilers.  The west does it using saw dust. cheap and good.

 

  Burn ,  used to be part  of  the  traditional  farming  culture , for   centuries .

            Global  warming  happens  naturally ,  caused by the planet Earth  tilting on its axis .

            Tell that  to India and  China .555

              

            

[Beats56]

Not a global warming guy (AL Gore). As been said in the posts cut and bale for livestock bedding, mushroom growing, ethanol, or feed. Plow under the rest or leave it and seed over it as they are now doing in NA with a seed drill. Seems to work ok but you to have the equipment.

Now at home the mushroom farmers come in after the wheat harvest is done and cut and bale huge bales for growing mushrooms. And the farmers make some money to boot.

 

 

[bannork]

6 minutes ago, Beats56 said:

Not a global warming guy (AL Gore). As been said in the posts cut and bale for livestock bedding, mushroom growing, ethanol, or feed. Plow under the rest or leave it and seed over it as they are now doing in NA with a seed drill. Seems to work ok but you to have the equipment.

Now at home the mushroom farmers come in after the wheat harvest is done and cut and bale huge bales for growing mushrooms. And the farmers make some money to boot.

 

 

There are haystacks all over Issan right now, consisting of the the stalks cut when the rice was separated from the stalks by the threshing machines. Plenty of hay for mushroom farming , etc.

But as mentioned many farmers don't have the money to hire the larger tractors to plough the remaining stalks under. They would rather burn the stalks off in March and April and then when the rains come in May/June use their own hand ploughs on the soft soil to prepare for the next planting season.

[kannot]

they may as  well tell them not to breath whilst their at it......not that theyll be able to

Edited December 20, 2016 by kannot

[kannot]

1 hour ago, gr8fldanielle said:

you found what, someone that does a little bit of research? What does NASA say about it?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2011/07/27/new-nasa-data-blow-gaping-hold-in-global-warming-alarmism/#739efb6355a4

i  used  to  like  roy  spencer  until  i  found  out he  was  a  creationist

[kannot]

6 hours ago, ratcatcher said:

To burn .................................................................or not to burn, that is the question.

 

Many farmers do not have access to a large tractor or are just too lazy to plow under the stubble which enriches the soil.

 

 

id  say  number  two  was  way  more  prevalent

[Beats56]

21 minutes ago, bannork said:

There are haystacks all over Issan right now, consisting of the the stalks cut when the rice was separated from the stalks by the threshing machines. Plenty of hay for mushroom farming , etc.

But as mentioned many farmers don't have the money to hire the larger tractors to plough the remaining stalks under. They would rather burn the stalks off in March and April and then when the rains come in May/June use their own hand ploughs on the soft soil to prepare for the next planting season.

Ya I. Understand that. It's really too bad and I feel for those farmers. Maybe when they can earn a desent living things might change.

Edited December 20, 2016 by Beats56
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[Beats56]

If I was rich which I am not I buy the equipment and do it for free. Just something  to do but then again there is that pest work permit thing.

 

[MJCM]

If I was rich which I am not I buy the equipment and do it for free. Just something  to do but then again there is that pest work permit thing.
 

Good on you, but then it leaves the question, will the farmers let you do it ? They are used to doing it this (their) way and everything "new" can be met with a lot of scepticism

[overherebc]

14 minutes ago, MJCM said:

 

Good on you, but then it leaves the question, will the farmers let you do it ? They are used to doing it this (their) way and everything "new" can be met with a lot of scepticism

 

 

Depends what day of the week you want to do it.

[DekDaeng]

2 hours ago, gr8fldanielle said:

you found what, someone that does a little bit of research? What does NASA say about it?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2011/07/27/new-nasa-data-blow-gaping-hold-in-global-warming-alarmism/#739efb6355a4

Irrelevant, Danielle.

 

The planet is infinite, or the planet is finite. Which is it?

 

Gulf of Mexico polluted, half the Great Barrier Reef dead, you say carry on?

 

[jak2002003]

People keep saying farmers don't have enough money to use an expensive tractor to plough in the stubble. 

 

Why don't the farmers use the buffalo and cows like they did in the past?  I suspect its because most of the farmers are lazy... just throw a match to burn the fields... much easier than doing some work walking behind a buffalo.

 

Also they can sell the buffalos offspring for good money... or raise them to a big size and they are worth a small fortune.  They are free to feed to.. eating the rice stubble and straw... and don't have to be insured or filled up with gasoline. 

 

 

[Wilsonandson]

Keep the straw, bundle it up and sell it to one of the three little pigs. He can use it to build a house.

[bannork]

23 minutes ago, jak2002003 said:

People keep saying farmers don't have enough money to use an expensive tractor to plough in the stubble. 

 

Why don't the farmers use the buffalo and cows like they did in the past?  I suspect its because most of the farmers are lazy... just throw a match to burn the fields... much easier than doing some work walking behind a buffalo.

 

Also they can sell the buffalos offspring for good money... or raise them to a big size and they are worth a small fortune.  They are free to feed to.. eating the rice stubble and straw... and don't have to be insured or filled up with gasoline. 

 

 

I suspect they don't use the buffalo like in the past because it takes time to train a buffalo to plough, plus it ploughs far far slower than a tractor.

The tractor used by most farmers with handle bars can also be used to pump water, it just needs a belt attached to the pump, plus you can put rubber tyres on it and attach a trailer, then it can move at a fair speed, 10 or 15 miles per hour, far faster than an oxen with a cart.

If you have a buffalo where are you going to feed it in the rainy season? Everywhere has rice fields or sugar cane or rubber plantations. You will have to take it to some public land and move it every few hours or keep it in a shed and find grass to feed it.

True it provides free fertilizer and generally it's a gentle animal, far less temperamental than a cow but you need many rai that you can fence in to make it worthwhile looking after them. And if you don't live near their shed someone could easily liberate them during the night.