Sugar cane farmer: Burning is necessary - Go ahead "jail us all!"

[GeorgeCross 6,641]

52 minutes ago, webfact said:

He said he faced going to jail for years and the punishment would be worse than being accused of theft.

 

reported elsewhere that 10s of thousands die each year from PM2.5 related diseases.

 

he should be tried for genocide

 

 

[GeorgeCross 6,641]

35 minutes ago, ThomasThBKK said:

Good idea, fill the prisons, and let the ones who did less crime like smoking weed out of there instead.

 

and let them have the land to grow the traditional thai crop.. weed

 

more profitable and ecological ta boot

 

 

[URMySunshine 1,771]

Good we now have a real life walking , talking  scapegoat now let him be scaped. Good he put  his hand up and confessed. 

[thequietman 11,100]

39 minutes ago, Bassosa said:

I read somewhere that this was tried, but no one took responsibility for the maintenance of the shared equipment. 

I didn't realise until this year that Thais are not the most gifted farmers. Disappointing.

If it isn't all handed to them and done for them ........... they are just not interested.

[thequietman 11,100]

5 minutes ago, Matzzon said:

This is a MF stupid moron, that needs to go to jail for a long time. Only his disrespectful attitude to the law and the iones upholding it should be enough to punish him.

There is perfectly good ways to take care of this problem, that many other countries are dealing very well with, so he can take his poor excuses an push up his MF big ar5e!

Don't normally agree with anything that you say, but for this, a big, fat yes.

[URMySunshine 1,771]

Just now, thequietman said:

Don't normally agree with anything that you say, but for this, a big, fat yes.

I think one thing that nearly everyone Thai and farang can agree on now is.....

 

SORT OUT THE AGRO-INDUSTRY AIR POLLUTION CRISIS ...NOW

 

[CGW 9,859]

48 minutes ago, dyertribe said:

The solution ... create a pool of harvesters that can be cheaply hired by the farmers and find new jobs for the cane cutters.

The "government" stated last year they would be doing this! seems they forgot?

[Lloydyboy 7]

It's not only Thailand that burns the sugar cane before harvesting, it happens in Florida too, see here>

https://civileats.com/2019/07/15/burning-sugarcane-in-florida-is-making-people-sick-could-green-harvesting-change-the-game/

[billd766 26,156]

52 minutes ago, Bassosa said:

I read somewhere that this was tried, but no one took responsibility for the maintenance of the shared equipment. 

I didn't realise until this year that Thais are not the most gifted farmers. Disappointing.

A simple way of maintaining the equipment would be to send to each area a group of Army/Navy/Air Force mechanical engineers to keep the cane harvesters online. It should keep the harvesters working and also provide hands on training for when the leave the military.

[kelboy 543]

It's not just the sugar can farmers it's the rice farmers too.

Born stupid,look stupid and are stupid. 

[Farangwithaplan 1,517]

49 minutes ago, ThomasThBKK said:

Good idea, fill the prisons, and let the ones who did less crime like smoking weed out of there instead.

Ummm, but by smoking weed they were creating air pollution, too. They should stay there.

 

Look the guy might be ignorant to the greater issue of safe, clean air. But the guy and many like him just don't have the margins in geowing a crop where he gets screwed by the mills on price year after year. There should be a pro active solution by the government. They should give up on treating the effects with portable scrubbers and the like and get to the heart of the matter.

 

The Government need to develop a plan to assist these farmers in either cutting through the undergrowth economically or they need to assist them in moving to a new crop which isn't reliant on burning or manual / mechanical removal of undergrowth.

 

 

On a tangent, I once spoke to an electrical contractor who ran cables through the barriers of a walk bridge. By doing so, it menat people using the walk bridge would need to avoid the wires. I asked him why he did it, knowing that it would cause issues. He advised me that another contractor was meant to have moved the pole so it didn't cause the cables to foul on the bridge. The pole contractor didn't do his job properly.

 

So this contractor claimed he had no recourse. If he didn't install the cables, he wouldn't get paid, may have been in default and needed to pay. He also wouldn't have received future work. He claimed he had no way of advising that the pole was in the wrong location and therefore could not complete his job properly. I'm not sure if he was telling the whole truth, but there is certainly a disconnect. I asked a concretor once about a similar issue and I got a similar result.

 

I don't blame the farmer in this instance. I blame the government for letting the situation get to this state.

[URMySunshine 1,771]

5 minutes ago, billd766 said:

A simple way of maintaining the equipment would be to send to each area a group of Army/Navy/Air Force mechanical engineers to keep the cane harvesters online. It should keep the harvesters working and also provide hands on training for when the leave the military.

That would mean the 1750 generals (UK 85) losing their chauffeurs , cooks , cleaners , gardeners , bottle washers , medal polishers and doing something useful for a change. We can but hope common sense will prevail. 

 

Responding to criticism that the army is top-heavy, General Sir Nick Carter said that the total number of starred officers — brigadiers and generals — had been reduced by nearly 40 per cent, from 141 to 85, during the past five years.Dec 29, 2017

Edited January 23, 2020 by URMySunshine

[ExpatOilWorker 5,028]

Just use the right equipment.

 

 

[CNXexpat 3,562]

If the first farmers will go to jail, the others will find a solution for not burning for sure.

[URMySunshine 1,771]

8 minutes ago, ExpatOilWorker said:

Just use the right equipment.

 

 

This has been discussed before.

 

https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1127782-sugar-cane-machine-harvester-versus-burning-the-sugar-cane/

 

https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1135540-ban-of-sugar-cane-burning-enforced-this-year-really/#comments

Edited January 23, 2020 by URMySunshine