Sawanee Phorang, a 44-year-old farmer from Suphan Buri’s Doem Bang Nang Buat district, recently changed her traditional rice farming practice by adopting laser land levelling (LLL), an innovative technology she claims has completely transformed her way of life.
Being a partner of the Thai Rice Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (Nama) project since 2020, she was trained to reduce the cost of production and increase yield through the concept of wet-and-dry rice planting.
She also learnt about proper fertiliser use and how to avoid burning rice straws after the harvest to…