W. Her. Or her. Local region is a rich agricultural province in central thailand. And this one of the worlds leading rice produces and exporters. 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. You. Hear my name is some look to see im 74 years old 60 years ago time people were very healthy rice 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 using that by you and that saddam had a lot of heart yeah. All the 18000000 rice farmers in thailand so mark is among the few who refuses to use chemicals in farming. He. As his simple and interesting way of growing chemical free rice. In the fields in the mid ninetys the population of apple snails exploded i found out my wife was secretly using pesticides i didnt agree and bought my docs instead of being fed. Her. These awesome looks a. V. s. Their existence can be able to amend this benefit to mankind and the environment for 000. 00000. 00000. 00. They are the cross breed between natives and cocky campbell ducks. The new breed gives them a strong immune system and the cocky campbell breed means they can play lots of eggs. Their future is determined by their gender. These workers are checking the gender of the ducklings. Theres a hot spot in the rear end of male ducklings and only expats can feed. The. Male ducklings are sold to keep the price and will be raised for meat. Females are more expensive and will be raised for eggs. Letting. Raised in both posed environments and free range in the field its. Neat how old are the docks. When he almost 3 months. Today so nick is visiting the duck farm to preserve 3000 female ducks hell pick them up when theyre 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. Its a Family Business which needs all hands on deck. The for. The previous class of duck academy has retired and this is a boarding academy. And his helpers are preparing the dormitory for his new group of students. I need to put in a poem for the rock. Just tie it to that wouldnt 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 the adjustable ramps which enable ducks to move up and down each level by themselves. Today is a big day. So no hes going back to the docks to recruit his 1st group of students. Taking out 99 docs today how about i want to test out the storm. And let the dogs get used to that i mean. I. I. I the docs son now 5 months so i. Can time docs. Have got 99 is a lucky number of people. But in these days friday which time people believe is an almost specious day. Friday is the best day of the week to hold a ceremony according to tradition. I know where they are. I know. Lets go. Home come on hurry up. I said ok great im not getting a few smaller ones too but these are all a nice healthy sign. So no plans to train the 1st group of ducks to be leaders for the big group that will come later i know its too long familiar but theyll soon find their way around. Their arms. Back and forth exploring ways. To tear up the property leading the way cracking loudly she could make a good leader. See the docs go up the ladder. Learn to use the ramps to get up to the top level. Im teaching them how to get on and off the truck theyre still having trouble with the corners but theyll learn eventually to use both levels. The flow for. Last time i picked up the docs and lucky number today im getting out of 2980. Count them and get them all out. And i want them on Different Levels when you. Go out by themselves all. The way these are new ducks they wont know how to do that yet. Each cost around 3. 00. Go up soon once already made it stick together docs need to do this every day catch them and then. I get. Over 2000 already. Ok to me as officially open. To me as 3 simple lessons. Of the. Lesson one. This lesson 3000. 700. 30 minutes. More than an hour has passed. And its the 1st time theyve ever done it at. Any one and eventually. Teach themselves. Some good takes his 3000 students to feed in the rice field every day. Normally you have to pay around 200. 00 u. S. 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. The canteen and the playground to wait but the students must 1st learn the 2nd lesson. Listen to getting off the truck. 3000. 00 to get off the truck within 15 minutes. Thank. God. I. Thank. You. Getting off the truck might be simple for students in the lower levels yet they had to bring me this take im not an evel fast. But is not a simple for those on the upper decks. I. Close the ramp 1st all the back up thats going to. Chase them down to. That. I. So much as 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 away from. The grains on which the ducts are equally feeding. Spillage 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 theres always spillage at least one or 2 bucket falls power that. I. So much students enjoy the field for around 8 hours. Collecting the ducks from the field its duck academys 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 this new easy to. Whistle sound is easy to recognize. If its time to get her out to the fields. But it takes months of training. I mean i use my voice and i caught a cold and my voice wouldnt work properly but the whistle sounds the same the. Some people call me crazy or blurring my wistar like im a soldier that the drunks dont understand. What i do but i just do things my way. Because some looks so. Soon they will exit which will give them a regular income. In the equivalent of their teens. 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. But theyve improved a lot theyve learned to use the ramps and better going around the corner i. Mean i need to be gentle when youre training and you cant shout at them or be aggressive they have feelings. But its their instinct to react all day and one when they go into the field thank start searching with a for something to eat straw if you want to look theyre eating snails i am and if theres no food in one spot they move to another there. Is no stopping. I the field grazing the duck says chilies for. Wisdom brought to thailand 100 years ago. Currently there are around the field grazing ducks in the country. To. Take his dogs home every day but most field grazing dock owners take their feet in different rice we found that the ducks sleep out and about. Between probably. Raise them for meat and eggs. Chemicals. Has around 40 acres of rice fields. This is a. Lot. Im checking out the rice plots. These ones are about 14 days out. Im also checking facts. Because i dont use chemical pesticides on my yeah they normally come out to feed in the mornings and evenings or in light rain or plants sprouting after 2 days if it ran short and after that the snails will eat everything like little. 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 brit with native snails resulting in apples snails which quickly spread and became the worst enemy for younger ice 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. Couldnt have been thought about there were several changes a lot of them was the introduction of new types of rice the need of 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. That there has been a drastic increase in Agro Chemical imports in 2015 time and imported around 80000 tonnes but recently this amount is increased by well over 100 percent to almost 200000 tons. Of orders 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 lip. Hartman got. All me here no i oppose the use of chemical pesticides in addition to snails the substances are so kill eels fish and crabs they dont target the right side way. Grazing his ducks in other peoples fields has potential dangers. So let me just to be extra careful. How i ask people if they use chemicals i have fields i need to know in advance because if theyve recently sprayed their fields the chemicals could harm the ducks and theyve done that. But yeah they just harvested the rice and theres a lot of spillage for the ducks. Now you know. When you dont spray the field its. Ok because the people have few days ago right after the owner always does it himself. Up the creek. But there. It is there a snail shells birds have come here to feed theres lots of rice village in there. You know while some look ducks 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 neighbors fields provides mutual benefits. Its a free service to clean up the field while some looks ducks get a free meal. Was. I i. I i thank. You so much better at getting in and out of the truck now that 40 percent faster than i go out on the 1st day. I. I. I. Thank. With you. I. I. I come down faster come on saeed tower. And my. Next guns want to get out too i already dont need. My move to the left. I ever do the job round of applause. I got to slowly getting the hang of that. I dont have to use the emergency slide any that i have really improved you just have to keep training them mind this sand theyll be even better by there i get more used to it at the months from now theyll be past that i beat you i. Bought my neighbor called and said a few docs are still out and about so i need to come pick them up. Thank you so much over there. Some values every student. Even though only a few get lost he put all his effort into bringing them home. Dont stop they eggs when they are around 6 months old. Around 70 percent about ducks a length 3000 ducks should be producing 2500 eggs 2600 when the ducks are well fed. It depends on how much food there is in the fields like science if there isnt enough the number of eggs goes down. So mcduck a salaried high demand. They provide him with substantial extra Income Customers either come to buy direct role play sold as. 20 percent and i pads and i cover my costs at a 50 percent i make a nice profit. Today is the most in day in the bucket in his academic yeah. So much is going to release his students into a new the grow rice field. Thank. The ducks are very good now and the 1st few days we needed for 5 people to drive them down. No they only need 10 minutes i timed it the 1st day it took hours. I. Now it usually takes them about 20 to 25 minutes to get back in. And there are a lot of doctors. No other farmers allowed ducks into the growing rice were told here but the ducks will ruin their crop i dont know. He lets the dutch great when the rice is just one month old they are used pest control those. That go. Past include snails and if its caterpillars and work the docks catch the insects in yeah yeah man out here we have some ladybugs. Yeah but the normally passes for rocks but the taxing them to yeah. Yeah i whining. Look these are apples now and the end and i live in one of them i additionally they provide free delivery of natural fertilizer. And the ducks excrement fertilizer in southfields docks digests now as quickly as you know shell can stay intact for 10 years decomposes in the dark stomach and a half an hour it will run their digestive system is a magazine thank rewrite i. They also make just controllers i mean. Maybe on the docks go into the fields they step on the way we had some fatten them up by but the rice is Strong Enough to survive and can hang. Out there. Even the. Other farmers think im crazy for letting the ducks trample over the rice like that yeah but youll see later that he knows better here because its fact that back. Burner. The ducks have completed their mission in some looks field the rice no bears grain. 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 quam the soul of the plants. Toskala time kong cow. When the 1st grains appear at the ceremony takes place on the 8th it tends or 11th day of the growing moon up back to ask the goddess of rice made for her blessing. Now hold the thought that the mother see. Mother now dora but mother shot a when mother sees who shot i mean stay with us now. Well see today is the good day today is a good night we bring you sandal wood powder and aromatic oils that i share you with them dress you comb your hair and put makeup on your face youre not from the pregnant field we bring you fruits sour and sweet but no mice rats outlets caterpillars or worms destroy our rights. To saddle. Return will you. Take a look at the mare. How come your hair. So mark and his wife still recall the incident for 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 past came to us. I said we should try using chemicals on just one plot of land but he refused. I was worried that outlets were destroying our rice plants but he said that to me live once there. I went home crying i didnt believe. My wife both passed her side cause i went to the pharmacy on my motorbike to get some and i sprayed it on the snails. I noticed snakes and animals. I said did you perhaps pesticides. And i couldnt get all the snails by hand anymore so i stopped going to the fields of. The world now break my light a 100 docs and release them onto i feel like i am you. Cant argue the fact when he asked me to perform the blessing ceremony. I look to see how i rise transfer are doing and they were flourishing. Our ancestors were right. Like a fact their children without using chemical and sunlight. 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