News Forum - Bangkok campaign targets rice field burning to combat air pollution

[Thaiger]

Bangkok’s governor, Chadchart Sittipunt, has announced a campaign to eliminate burning in rice fields to tackle air pollution caused by fine particulate matter (PM2.5). The initiative, launched yesterday in Nong Chok district, aims to address the issue across 80,000 rai of rice paddies and 4,000 farming households in 10 districts, including Nong Chok, Khlong Sam … …

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[Ramanathan.P]

Just tell PEA to study the possibility of setting up a thermal Energy plant and use all these husks, rice and sugar cane straw as  fuel to burn. That way it is put to good use and pollution can be controlled with proper filtering at the chimneys. PEA can just give the farmers some token of appreciation to buy them. May be the government can allocate some funds....for sure it will be much cheaper than spending millions to fight and control the burning and haze.