A FRESH market in Nakhon Ratchasima (Korat) is overflowing with Chinese fruits and vegetables with vendors saying the quality is good, the colours beautiful, and they are cheaper than what Thailand produces, Amarin TV said yesterday (Aug. 14). A reporter of this TV channel went to investigate the fruits and vegetables being sold at
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Fed up with grape wine? How about sapodilla wine?
By Thai Newsroom Reporters SAPODILLA MAY BE eaten as a fresh fruit or get processed into an oven-dried fruit or turned into wine. Farmer Virapon Kopkarnpaisarn has been looking for a business partner who may launch a downstream industry with the sapodilla which he cultivates in Baan Na district of Nakhon Nayok. The highly sweet,
Read moreVulnerable yet valuable papaya
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PAPAYA TREES are not so resistant to drought or diseases as sugarcanes in the tropical climate of a remote district of Petchaburi but papaya is a cash crop worth several times as much at a domestic market. Farmer Chamnong Meeritthichai of Nong Yaplong district used to operate a sugarcane plantation in
Read moreTiny province boosting and safeguarding a marian plum genus
By Thai Newsroom Reporters AN EXTENSIVE FARMING of a certain genus of marian plum is currently underway in Nakhon Nayok with intent of its fruit becoming an indigenous cash crop of the tiny Central Plains province. More than 100 farmers in Banna district, Pak Phlee district and the capital district of Nakhon Nayok are being
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