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Villages set up "Leaf Bank” in northern Thailand
CHIANG MAI, Dec11(TNA)- Local people have set up the "Bai Mai" Bank, meaning the “Leaf Bank”, in the northern resort Chiang Mai Province of Thailand to ease impacts from the global warming problem.
The residents of Chiang Mai's Chaiprakarn Sub-district, who suffered from severe fog and the climate change, have collected corn cobs and fallen leaves to sell at the "Bai Mai" Bank to be used as bio-fertilizers for the community with over 220 households.
The leaves are purchased at five baht per sack and the locally-produced fertilizers will be used, environmentally-friendly, for growing potatoes, longan, lychees, rice and other crops.
The community-based bio-fertilizers are sold at 180 baht per sack--considerably cheaper than chemical fertilizers priced at some 900 baht per sack, resuling in reduced costs of production of the locally-grown crops by about 70 per cent with even better productivity and overall produce. (TNA)
The residents of Chiang Mai's Chaiprakarn Sub-district, who suffered from severe fog and the climate change, have collected corn cobs and fallen leaves to sell at the "Bai Mai" Bank to be used as bio-fertilizers for the community with over 220 households.
The leaves are purchased at five baht per sack and the locally-produced fertilizers will be used, environmentally-friendly, for growing potatoes, longan, lychees, rice and other crops.
The community-based bio-fertilizers are sold at 180 baht per sack--considerably cheaper than chemical fertilizers priced at some 900 baht per sack, resuling in reduced costs of production of the locally-grown crops by about 70 per cent with even better productivity and overall produce. (TNA)
