Air pollution in Chiangmai
Everyone who lives and/or works in Chiangmai or surroundings has been confronted with it during the period March to May. I mean here the uncontrolled burning of the forests. It is about hectares of land with serious environmental consequences.
What the "hilltribe" or the arsonists forget is that, just like last year, this has an impact on tourism, even resulting in the closure of smaller airports.
In December last year, the local scientists, together with the farmers and monks of the Mae Chaem district, decided that they would try to solve this problem.
In my humble opinion, the ภาษาไทย so tough that this might solve the problem part by part but not completely. Of course this is a good initiative and all “support” should be given to it.
The association of 25 local monks together with 114 “hilltribe” villages held a seminar on December 6 to 8 at the Wat Koo in Mae Chaem. Together with the Mahachulalongkorn Buddhist University/Chiangmai here, they try to introduce modern agricultural techniques. The faculty of the Mae Jo University of Agriculture has been asked to ensure this runs smoothly. Support has also been promised from the British Consulate and the Royal Project from Nan province.
Chairman Phra Suchat once again asked in the local press to support this project. This can motivate the hill tribes and possibly lead to a better future. All questions and support regarding the project can be sent in English to project coordinator Dr Jonathan Nash, email address: [email protected]
The governor also has a telephone number where you can complain in English about the burning of fields and household waste. Just call 053/409345 and they will do their utmost to help you.
Let's hope we have a nice summer ahead of us and no “smokey season”?
Only Chiang Mai and surroundings? I have really seen this phenomenon in many more places in Thailand, not just in the north. Everywhere you go they are burning fields somewhere. The first time I was surprised that something like this was possible and allowed. Now I'm almost used to it and I don't pay attention to it anymore. It's actually too crazy for words that people treat nature like this. But yes this is Thialnd.
@ Thailandganger. The problem is that Chiang Mai is in a valley. As a result, the smoke cannot escape and thick smog forms. The air quality is very bad for several months.
Burning cropland is an old (and cheap) method of making the land more fertile.
It is unclear whether the article is about this or the burning of forests, as also takes place in Indonesia.
the ENGLISH word is Pollution. Is also used very often in Thai. The normal Dutch word is AIR POLLUTION and if you insist on using an Anglicism, it is pollution (has nothing to do with the police). But: at the end of the dry season there are also more and more spontaneous forest fires - just like in the Netherlands at the end of a very hot summer. Plus - as has often been noted here, the Thai does not care about a discarded butt or the like - and the hilltribe person even less. It is also a way of not getting arable land - used for a few years and then left to its own devices. Incidentally, it would be much, much worse in Laos - there is much more forest there, also untouched (I think that is no longer the case in Thailand). And air currents don't like boundaries. In the stretch west of Kanchanaburi - up to the Burmese border, of the same.
Driving on the A2 last weekend from Chiang Rai to Tak, you saw entire forests on fire left and right. The enormous smoke development often obstructs visibility. Burning waste from the sugar cane harvest also causes a rain of soot every day. If smoke spreads over a schoolyard with children playing, no one will say anything. It is part of Thai culture.