Coss Posted February 4, 2015 Report Share Posted February 4, 2015 Comments in italics are mine Source, The Water Watch and Monitoring System for Warning Center is urging rice farmers not to grow their crops this summer, saying 58% of water reserved for use during the dry season has been depleted. Have they been running the water low, so as to avoid the threat of flooding in the rainy season? Or will there be flooding again? According to the Center, 4 major dams located in the low lying areas of the Chao Praya River presently contain a combined total of 6.2 billion cubic meters of water, only a bit more than half of their capacities. The four include Bhumipol, Sirikit, Kwae Noi and Pasakcholasit dams. Around 1.3 million cubic meters of water, reserved primarily for consumption during the drought crisis, is reportedly left in the storage. Farmers are thus urged not to grow off season rice to ensure adequate supply of water during the summer, as over 4.11 million rais of farmlands have so far been used to grow rice against the Irrigation Department's advice. Could this be a ruse so that the stockpiles of 'Rice Scheme' rice can be sold? However, the Center is confident there will be sufficient amount of water to support the next rice growing season. How do they know? have they received next seasons rainfall figures already? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Flashermac Posted February 5, 2015 Report Share Posted February 5, 2015 Pheu Thai (and the red shirts) kept blaming Abhisit for the floods, saying it was his fault for not releasing water from the dams before the storms hit. This was despite the fact the PT's own ag minister admitted that he was the one who ordered the dams kept full in hopes of getting in another rice crop that year. Poltics as usual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buffalo_bill Posted February 6, 2015 Report Share Posted February 6, 2015 My temporary beergarden-love-of-a-lifetime from the city ok Kalasil (sp?) came from a dynasty of mushroom farmers . Or so she told me . Is this a good business at all ? Not that I wish to invest anything , just matter of interest . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limbo Posted February 6, 2015 Report Share Posted February 6, 2015 Can be magic! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted February 8, 2015 Report Share Posted February 8, 2015 Easy for the present Thai gov to say do this, don't do that...but when you are tooled up to do something, like grow rice, not easy just to turn that off! Will the gov provide compensation? help to retool? or just empty words? Answer is obvious.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted February 8, 2015 Report Share Posted February 8, 2015 Big market for mushrooms here, but I've no idea how many farmers are involved in it. Here's a fascinating video by someone who know f*ck all about what he is seeing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 8, 2015 Report Share Posted February 8, 2015 " Is this a good business at all ? Not that I wish to invest anything , just matter of interest " I don't know how true it is not being a farmer, but heard that cultivation of some varieties of mushroom, can be more profitable than rice growing and a quick return on investment, like weeks instead of months ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radioman Posted February 8, 2015 Report Share Posted February 8, 2015 They'd be Limbo's magic type I'm guessing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted February 9, 2015 Report Share Posted February 9, 2015 I bought some standard toad stool mushrooms at Macro, paid ~32 Baht for a hand full...looks like a winner to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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