Thai Rice NAMA Open House

Story and Photos: Apiradee Treerutkuarkul, Agriculture and Food Cluster/ GIZ Thailand

Policymakers and government executives from Germany and Thailand recently visited  ThaiRiceNAMA project site in Suphanburi province. 

Dr Tobias Lindner, Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office, give a book on 160 years of Thai-German relations to Teerayut Chanditthawong, Suphanburi Deputy Provincial Governor.

Dr Tobias Lindner, Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office, was greeted by German Ambassador Georg Schmidt, Deputy Provincial Governor Teerayut Chanditthawong, GIZ Thailand executives and government officials in the province during his informal visit to the “Farmers Care Earth” demonstration plot.

Mrs Ureerat Charoentoh, Director – General of Thailand International Cooperaion Agency (Middle) visited Thai Rice NAMA demonstration site.

Mrs Ureerat Charoentoh, Director – General of Thailand International Cooperation Agency also led a team of executives comprising Mrs Arunee Hiam, Deputy Director – General and Lieutenant Sorawud Preededilok, Minister attached to Thailand International Cooperation Agency, to visit the site.

A group of Thai Rice Nama farmers members led by Sawanee Phorang and Lampa Khampaeng shared their experiences and challenges facing them when transforming their traditional rice farming method to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Mrs Sawanee, Mrs Lampa and many other female farmers in the community have been adopting innovative farming methods of Laser Land Levelling (LLL) technology, Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD), Site Specific Nutrient Management and Straw and Stubble Management.  These four technologies help make rice cultivation sustainable increase rice yields, save water while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Mrs Lampa Khampaeng, Thai Rice NAMA farmer member explained TICA executives how farmers can adapt a plastic pipe to measure water level at rice paddies.

At present, their “Love the Earth” rice paddies in Doem Bang Nang Buat District are regarded as the key Thai Rice NAMA demonstration plots.  The community has become a learning centre for farmers nationwide to visit and learn how to improve climate resilience and livelihoods.

The farmers group recently signed the memorandum of cooperation with Oam Suk Social Enterprise Company Limited. This cooperation is to promote carbon credits from agriculture by purchasing 40 tonnes rice produced under the Thai Rice NAMA for distribution during the upcoming Earth Day.

Mrs Sawanee Phorang (right) led Dr Tobias Lindner (middle) to Thai Rice NAMA demonstration site in Doem Bang Nang Buat district, Suphanburi province.

Since 2018, Thai Rice NAMA has been working with Thai agricultural authorities at the national and the provincial level to support hundreds of smallholder farmers to apply low greenhouse gas emission methods. Farmers, regardless of gender, can now grow rice more sustainably with the use of laser land levelling and alternate wetting and drying. Water and fertilisers are used more efficiently and with great care.

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