ที่มา/ความสำคัญโครงการ :

Now, most of rice seeds that have been promoted to Thai farmers are pretty much selected to grow with chemical fertilizer, pesticides, and insects. Therefore, the cost of chemical farming is very expensive, and the health of farmers is negatively affected.

Farmers gathered, growing rice

In the Ban Nong Lek Ta Chang, Surin, most of farmers are still doing chemical farming and have chronic health and economic problems, as the cost of production is very high. In addition, some of them also have an informal debt problem. In fact, there are a few farmers interested to adopt organic farming because it can improve their heath conditions, but the lack of knowledge and distribution channels cause them doubt on this system.

Also, big rice mills tend to monopolize in terms of buying rice from farmers in this area and could not buy any organic rice because there are so many chemical substances left in the machine. In addition, farmers cannot get a reasonable price because they rush to sell and no rice left in their rice barns.

An example of a rice barn in this community

All of these reasons, we need your helps to build a small rice mill to support farmers interested in organic farming to have more choices and preserve local seeds to maintain food security in our community.

Farmers tried to get weed off of a pilot organic farm

ประโยชน์ของโครงการ :

Encourage farmers doing chemical farming to realize problems of this system and learn the concepts of integrated farming.
Give farmers who want to do organic farming more choices to mill local rice with high nutrition such as organic Hom Mali rice.
Empower farmers in terms of food security in order to grow and harvest any seed by themselves and have more power to negotiate a price, not depending on big rice mills.
Create an organic agriculture network in the community.
Reduce some problems such as health, informal debt, and financial result.
Consumers will benefit from organic rice with high nutrition.

กิจกรรมที่จะดำเนินโครงการ :

Buy a small rice mill machine for brown rice.
Buy a used rice barn and install in this community.
Organize a course on organic agriculture for farmers, persuading them to adopt this concept.
Encourage farmers to grow locally organic rice by giving our members a seed and reasonable price.
Give our organic farming members a rice mill machine with a reasonable fee

Farmers sowed locally organic seeds

สมาชิกภายในทีม :

Kraingkrai Boonlhua is a former resort manager who has passion to develop his father hometown and help a farmer to have a better life and food security.

Duangkaew Tangjaitrong is a former NGO interested in health and self-reliance as she had a health problem before.

ภาคี :

A group of organic farmers in Surin
Run Rom Organic Living.

Lists	Cost / Unit	Quantity	Cost (Bath)
1 small rice mill machine	100	150	20,000
1 used rice barn			35,000
operation			5,000
Total			60,000

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A Community Rice Mill for Locally Organic Rice