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Farmers now forbidden from drying rice on roads
By Thai Newsroom Reporters RICE FARMERS ARE NO LONGER allowed to literally put their product to dry on the surface of rural roads anywhere or else they could be immediately arrested, a government official confirmed today (Jan.11). The Rural Roads Department has issued a regulation to terminate the common practice of literally strewing the […]
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Life
Alternate wetting and drying technique unveiled for Korat rice fields
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE IRRIGATION DEPARTMENT plans to launch a pilot project on the alternate wetting and drying technique for rice fields in Nakhon Ratchasima to save the irrigated water, increase the yielding volume of the crop and reduce emissions of polluting gases. Deputy Irrigation Department director-general Wittaya Kaewmee confirmed that the water […]
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