Three southern districts chosen as model for sustainable self-supporting cities

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Three districts in the three southernmost provinces have been chosen to be developed as model of development for sustainable self-supporting under the southern triangle development programme, Government spokesman Lt-Gen Sansern Kaewkamnerd disclosed over the weekend.

 

The three selected districts are Betong in Yala, Pattanai’s Nong Chik and Narathiwat’s Su-ngai Kolok.

 

The government has planned to build two community power plants in Betong which will use biomass, diesel as well as water as fuel. New tourism destinations will be developed to connect with villages wellknown for their popular cuisines namely Betong chicken village and Kueloh fish village3 with an aim to increase tourist arrivals to this district to 1.2 million annually an an anticipated 2.5 billion baht in tourism revenue annually. Betong will have its airport in two years from how which will greatly facilitate travel to this mountainous retreat.

 

Nong Chik district, meanwhile, will be developed in a mixed agricultural and industrial with the promotion of dual crops as rice and oil palm, livestock. Farmers will be trained to become “smart farmers” so they will eventually start their own businesses as SMEs.

Su-ngai Kolik district will be developed as a model border trading post with modern technology being introduced in immigration and customs processes.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/three-southern-districts-chosen-model-sustainable-self-supporting-cities/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2017-03-06

4 hours ago, webfact said:

The three selected districts are Betong in Yala, Pattanai’s Nong Chik and Narathiwat’s Su-ngai Kolok.

If the Prayut government also gave those provinces autonomy it might accomplish a quick peace with the insurgents. But Thailand will never give up lands it forcibly annexed even where the traditions, culture and history of the people in those provinces had no connection with the Buddhist Kingdom of Siam/Thailand. The economic gain has been too lucrative.

 

Will never work

It's not there land , then they have the ones that say they go to different area to get away from all & within a mth there are explosions here & there - even happened in my fathers area in Auss to try & get rid of the few remaining

They should do a Trump on the Malay border