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Crops drying up in Sakon Nakhon
Online Reporters, Published on 19/03/2012
» Farmers cultivating more than 12,000 rai of off-season rice in the northeastern province of Sakon Nakhon are without adequate water for their crops, reports said on Monday.
India business team to visit Iran next week
AFP, Published on 03/03/2012
» An Indian trade delegation will travel to Iran next week to explore business openings created by US-led sanctions over the Islamic republic's disputed nuclear programme, an export group says.
A putrid air of stupidity
News, Published on 03/03/2012
» It's a case of too little too late...and a continued front of incompetence. Villages, inner-city homes, wats and rice fields are still burning on a daily basis in Chiang Mai.
Their answer is blowing in the wind
Spectrum, Published on 15/01/2012
» Farmer Aiem Sompeng has just a rudimentary education, but curiosity and necessity drove him to design the energy-producing wind turbines that are now a landmark in his village of Dongyang, in Yasothon's Maha Chana Chai district. Like many rice farmers in the northeastern province, the 66-year-old Mr Aiem was trapped in debt incurred by the high costs of fertiliser, pesticide and electricity needed to run irrigation pumps, as well as uncertain prices for his crops.