B43m for reservoir projects

The Royal Initiative Discovery Institute (RIDI) will kick off a series of reservoir projects in the Northeast with a total budget of 42.8 million baht.

RIDI Chairman Grisada Boonrach was part of a group that recently visited several locations in Non Deang and Non Thai districts of Nakhon Ratchasima province to keep track of the projects.

These are based on New-Theory Agriculture and the Sufficiency Economy philosophy initiated by His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej The Great and executed by the RIDI.

The 42.8-million-baht budget is being subsidised by the Department of Water Resources under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, as well as by a donation from the Stock Exchange of Thailand Foundation.

The initiative aims to reinforce small reservoirs. The RIDI will sponsor provincial government organisations whose budgets are too small to accommodate…