ที่มา/ความสำคัญโครงการ :

The Mee Kin Mee Chai community enterprise in Buriram has changed the idea of chemical farming to organic farming to reduce a cost and make a profit. In addition, farmers also have good health as they stop using chemical substance and fertilizer. All the members of this community do everything by themselves from harvesting to removing the chaff ,and then to processing rice such as Hang organic rice, brown organic rice, and brown organic rice drink.

Organic farming is not only just a technique but also a societal process that everybody is working together. In the past, farmers had a lot of debt as they used expensive chemical substance and fertilizer. Some farmers sold all of their rice to a rice mill and bought it from other. This was a circle of farming in every season back then.

Now, this group has created a community enterprise by gathering 36 farmers in the Satuk district and set a standard of organic farming. This project has changed the ideas of chemical farming to low cost organic farming, and farmers also have good health because of non-chemical rice. The members of this project grow rice, remove the chaff of grains of rice, posses rice in a good package, and sell it in a community such as Hang organic rice, brown organic rice, and brown organic rice drink. Furthermore, most members also have a high antioxidant, which is good for eyesight and prevent them form diabetes mellitus and colorectal cancer.

Take rice to the air after 24 hours of soaking water and then remove the chaff to be Hang healthy rice

Packages of organic rice and members of this project.

ประโยชน์ของโครงการ :

1. Add more value and profit to farmers who are members in this organic farming system

2. Create a process of learning in the Me Kin Me Chai community enterprise on living with sufficiency, food security, and independence.

3. People in the community have good health because they can buy products such as brown organic rice drink, and Hang organic rice, which have high food nutrition.

4. Members will create a network in a community and among villages, districts, and other provinces to exchange and earn more knowledge from visiting successful cases.

5. Change chemical farming to organic farming, which has been a positive impact for producer and consumers’ health.

กิจกรรมที่จะดำเนินโครงการ :

1. Encourage farmers to expand the area of growing organic rice and exchange seeds within a community. We expect 36 families to join and have 23 acres for farming.

2. Create a group to possess organic rice and produce Hang Rice and brown rice drink.

3. Collaborate and expand a market in a community and other neighboring communities to sell products and also work with public sector to promote the products of this community enterprise.

สมาชิกภายในทีม :

1. Mr. Chedpong Gunha is the president of the community enterprise. He was a member of a sub-district administration organization and has expertise in public relations, cooking and community coordination.

2. Mr. Noi Sirwong is the vice president. His himself is a farmer using organic farming and traditional farming.

3. Mr. Banleng Jungpolkham is the secretary, who used to work as a salesman before turning himself to be a farmer learning and developing organic farming.

4. Mrs. Thanyarat Boonwong is the treasurer, who used to work in Bangkok before turning herself to learn the concept of organic farming.

ภาคี :

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List	Price/Unit	No.	Total(Baht)
1. Machine	8,000	1	8,000
2. Refresherator	15,000	1	15,000
4.Operation			2,300
Total			25,300

** www.Taejai.com has supported throughout the project in the total amount of 20,000 Baht.

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Organic rice processing for E-sarn villages project