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claim. play. local reviews are rich agricultural province in central thailand. and is one of the world's leading rice producers and exporters. ai. but this is only been possible with the extensive usage of agricultural chemicals be it herbicide pesticides or fertilizer. this has led to

environmental economical and health problems affecting both farmers and consumers. who knew. that my name is some look to sunny i'm 74 years old 60 years ago time people were very healthy i. was number one in the world back then we never used chemicals to farm but farmers were later misled and grew chemical advertisement and started i was in that body and that saddam had a lot of heart yeah. all the 18000000 rice farmers in thailand songbook is among the few who refuses to use chemicals environment. he has his simple and interesting way of growing chemical free rice. in the fields as in the mid ninety's the population of apples now's exploded i found out my wife was

secretly using pesticides i didn't agree and bought my ducks instead. these are some looks a.v.'s. their existence can be a tremendous benefit to mankind and the environment. for the. day all but between native and cocky campbell ducks. the need to breed gives them a strong immune system and the cocky campbell great means they can play lots of

eggs. if you judge is determined by their gender. these workers zaw checking the gender of the ducklings. there's a hot spot in the rear end of male ducklings and only ex-pats can feed. their male ducklings a soldier to keep the price and will be raised when the. females are more expensive and will be raised for. letting doubts raised in both closed environments and free range in the fields thanks.

need how our own doctor docs. almost 3 months. today so now he's visiting the doctor to be. 3000 female docs will pick them up when they're 5 months old which is the perfect age for training. so look is discussing the new school year of the academy with his son and wife. it's a family business which needs all hands on deck. the

previous class of duck academy has retired and this is a boarding academy. some look and his helpers are preparing the dormitory for his new group of students. yeah i need to put in a poem for the run. just tie it to that wouldn't post the road she got here. the most necessary feature of this academy is the school bus. designed it himself using his 20 years of experience in transporting ducks it has 7 levels and can carry up to 3000 ducks what makes it different from other trucks are the adjustable ramps which enable ducks to move up and down each level by themselves.

today is a big day. so he's going back to the docks to recruit his 1st group of students. making up 99 docs today how about i want to test out the stone. and let the dogs get used to that i mean by. i. i i got some of those 5 months so i. i.

i'm talking ducks. have got 99 is a lucky number of people. like me today is friday which time people believe is the most specious day. friday and is the best day of the week to hold a ceremony according to tradition. i know well then. i let's go i i. i. i i. i. come on hurry up i.

i i. i. so i put a joke right up my alley getting a few smaller ones too but these are all a nice healthy signs. so no plans to train the 1st group of dogs to be leaders for the big group that will come later. it's too long familiar but they'll soon find their way around. their arms. back and forth exploring the lives. in terror of the crowd leading the way out packing loudly she could make a good leader. see

the ducks go up. they are learning to use their ramps to get up to the top level. i'm teaching them how to get on and off the truck they're still having trouble with their corners but they're learning eventually to use both levels. world. next time i pick up the docs a lucky number today i'm getting another 2900. count

them and get them on board. but i don't want them on different levels. when you write you have to go all by themselves all. look you know way these and you don't want to know how to do that yet. you know that. each cost around $3.00 u.s. dollars. go up soon once already made it stick together docs you know need to do this every day catch them and put them up there. thank god that i've gotten very.

good but the 2000 already. 2. we'll i. was. of the. academy has officially opened.

the company has 3 simple lesson. lesson one thing the truck. is this 3000. level truck unless.

it's passed. out and it's the 1st time they've ever done it. and they have on their own eventually. now teach themselves. some good takes his 3000 students to feed in the rice field every day. normally we have to pay around $200.00 us dollars per day to feed them. taking them to the

field is 4 times cheaper. he takes them to his own fields as well as to his neighbors. i. they finally arrive at the destination. both meat canteen and the playground to wait but the students must 1st learn the 2nd lesson. lesson to. the truck. ringback for 3000. get off the truck within 15 minutes. thank. you.

i. thank you. getting off the truck might be simple for students in the lower levels yet they had to bring me the stick i'm no level fast. but is not a simple for those on the upper decks. i. close the rat 1st all the go back up and. chase them down to. that. i. so know has to use the emergency slide on the 1st day i. like skydiving was.

i. want to use the adjustable able to move down by them so i just need more time. the grains on which the ducks are equally feeding those of speech rights from the last growing season. the ducks get rid of these grains and prevent them from growing and mixing with next season school. prepping the field is only one of the many duties the ducks have to help someone grow his rice. and there's always spillage at least one or 2 bucket farms paro.

lets his students enjoy the field for around 8 hours. collecting the ducks from the field it's duck academy's most difficult lesson 2. lesson 3. obeying the whistle. have to return to the truck at the sound of the whistle.

however. getting 3000 students to stop playing is no easy task. that is easy to recognize. in terms of if it's time to go home or out to the field . but it takes months of training. i've. used my voice and i caught a cold my voice wouldn't work properly but the whistle sounds the same. to. some people call me crazy yeah blowing my whistle like i'm a soldier that the banks don't understand. but i do. i just do things my way.

because so much done so female soon they will lay eggs which will give him a regular income. in the equivalent of their team. they enjoy having fun. and certainly even take it a step further. their

performance is improving day by day. on the 1st day it took nearly 2 hours to get them out of the truck it was chaos. i need for them to improve the lot that they have learned to use the ramps and better going around the corner i

have no idea how when i need to be gentle when you're training and you can shout at them or be aggressive they have feelings. but it's their instinct to eat all day i want when they go into the field thanks start searching with for something to eat straight away look they're eating snails i am and if there's no food in one spot they move to another there. is no stopping. i the field grazing of ducks says chilies for. wisdom that was brought to thailand 100 years ago. currently there are around 10 in the field grazing ducks in the country. to. take his ducks every day but most field grazing is take up to feed different rice

and let the drops leap out and about. between. fields grazing raise them for meat and eggs. mean. chemicals. some of it has around 40 acres of rice fields this is a new planted plot. i'm checking out the rice plots. these ones are about 14 days out. i'm also checking for apples now because i don't use chemical pesticides on my you know they normally come out to feed in the morning. or in line to the plant sprouting after 2 days if it ran short and after that the snails will

eat everything like little more mouths have to take extra care until the rice is a month. golden apple snails were imported as a food source from japan and taiwan. however they brid with native snails resulting in apples snails which quickly spread and became the worst enemy for young plants this is one of the main reasons for the increase in agriculture call use. chemical usage in farming started in thailand around 50 years ago it was the result of the post world war 2 the revolution. if it could have been thought of that there were several changes one of them was the introduction of new types of rice the native varieties are abandoned in favor of the new ones that have a higher yield and shorter stocks or they require the use of chemical fertilizers

and insecticides. there has been a drastic increase in agro chemical imports in 2000 feet dean thailand imported around 80000 tonnes but recently this amount is increased by well over 100 percent to almost 200000 tonnes. of forest carry out regular studies an occupational diseases and they show that a 3rd of thai farmers have abnormally high levels of chemicals and are bloody minute. good god. almighty here you know i oppose the use of chemical pesticides in addition to snails these substances also kill eels fish and crabs they don't target the right way. grazing his ducks in other people's fields has potential dangers. it's

a little needs to be extra careful. how i ask people if they use chemicals i have fields i need to know in advance because if they've recently sprayed their fields the chemicals could harm the ducks. and then they just harvested the rice. there's a lot of spillage for ducks. then you know. when you they spray the fields. ok ok cool keep a few days ago right at the thought that the owner always does it himself. the pop pop you. never. get there a snail shells birds have come here to feed there's lots of rice spillage in there . you know while some that stumps are popular among his neighbors he must check

that the field is free of chemicals and that there is enough food for his ducks. for very snails here. taking the dogs to graze in the neighbor's fields provide mutual benefits. it's a free service to clean up the field while some looks ducks get a free meal. was i i. i i thank.

i talk so much better at getting in and out of to talk now that 40 percent faster than anyone on the 1st day. i .

thank. you. thank you when you. i. i. i i. i come down faster. i. mean my. next guns want to get out to i already do you know i'm going to you. by move to the left i get the job round of applause. i gotta go

i'm slowly getting the hang of that. i don't have to use the emergency slide that i have really improved you just have to keep training them mind this sand they'll be even better right there i getting more used to it months from now they'll be past that i feel heat i. think that my neighbor called and said a few docs are still out and about now so i need to come pick them up. thank you so much over there.

i. so values every student. even though only a few get lost he puts all his efforts into bringing them home. ducks stop their eggs when they are around 6 months old. around 70 percent about ducks alang it's 3000 ducks should be producing 2500 eggs 2600 when the ducks are well fed. pens on how much food there is in the fields.

if there isn't enough the number of aches goes down. so mcduck a salaried high demand. they provide him with substantial extra income customers either come to buy direct whole placeholders. 20 percent and i cover my costs at 50 percent i make a nice profit. today is the most didn't day in the bucket happened with academic yeah. so much is going to release his students into a newly grown rice field. thank

the ducks are very good now in the past few days we needed 45 people to drive them down. now that you only need 10 minutes i timed it the 1st day it took hours. i. make. now it usually takes him about 20 to 25 minutes to get back in. and there are a lot of ducks. no other farmers allowed ducks into the growing rice we're here but the ducks were ruined their crops i but not so much he lets the dutch great when the rice is just one month old they are these pest control has. passed since males and caterpillars and. the dogs catch the insects in yeah yeah man yeah out here we have

some 90 bucks. yeah but they're already past a rock and split the taxing them to yeah yeah yeah. look these are apples now eggs. and i will tell you that i additionally they provide free delivery of natural fertilizer. and the docks excrement i fell into line since our fields docks by jan snails quickly a snail shell can stay intact for 10 years to decompose it is in the dark stomach and a half an hour i met their digestive system is a magazine thanks i . they are also they just need to control this i. mean

maybe i'm the docs go into the fields they step on the way and fatten them up by 0 but the rice is strong enough to survive i can grow out of that. gave me leave. out of thomas think i'm crazy for letting the docs trample over the rights like that yeah but you'll see later that he knows better here because it's fact that.

the ducks have completed their mission in some next field. the rice well bears grain. i. it is a time farming tradition to conduct a rice blessing ceremony. that are coming up blessing ceremonies were passed down to us from our ancestors. the ceremony is to appease the quare the soul of the plants. toskala time pom cow. when the 1st grains appear at the ceremony takes place on the 8th tens or 11th day of the growing moon up one to ask the goddess of rice made for her blessing.

now hold the water have a mother see. mother not dora but mother shop today when mother sees who shall play you stay with us in the fields today is the good day today is that good night we bring you sandal wood powder and aromatic oils that i shower you with them dress you comb your hair and put makeup on your face your nationals from the pregnant field we bring you fruits sour and sweet that no mice rats apples caterpillars or worms destroy our rice. saddle. returning will you. take a look in the mirror. actually how come your hair. stopped. some new guy and his wife still recall the incident from over 20 years ago which

led some work on the part of raising field grazing ducks. everyone was spraying their fields with chemicals all the pass came to us. i said we should try using chemicals on just one part of plan howard but he refused. i was worried that after destroying our rice plants he said but then me leave once they're calling you know i went home crying i didn't believe. my wife both passed aside for us i went to the pharmacy on my motorbike to get some and i sprayed it on the snails. i noticed daddy and snakes and other animals. i said did you buy pesticides. and i couldn't get all the snails by hand anymore so i stopped going to the fields. you. alfred

my white 100 docs and released them on to off a horse around my. body with a cockney asked me to perform the blessing ceremony. i look to see how i rise transfer doing and they were flourishing. our ancestors were right. like a fact their children without using chemicals on my. way or. now if we get 30 pockets of rice by growing our crops this way we don't make a loss how the families make a loss if they harvest less than 50 to 60 pockets because their costs are too high

. i mean provide people with quality food. it's not harmful to customers or to the child workers and it doesn't make people sick because there are no harmful resident ass i was happy even if the whole world challenges me i will fight against the use of chemicals. the air. land here in her growing season is the way. to go with the ducks mission that is her.

her goal the doc supply us with x. 8 i left over grains of rice and they get rid of the snails caterpillars well i'm some day i get sick and out. of orbit and ducks are our savior and we're most grateful to them twice a week now. that i can call the land. good good good good good good.

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