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Mr. Pati Srikram -- a founder of Raitong Organics Farm -- has been awarded the Provincial Farmer of The Year Award 2009 for his efforts to promote organic agriculture in Sisaket. He was also invited by the Sisaket Provincial Governor to join one of the Governor's weekly radio programmes to share his story about organic agriculture and organic certification in December 2009. As we are the first certified organic rice producer in Sisaket province, we have gained quite a bit of positive interest from the provincial Land Development Department and agricultural extension to use our farm as an organic agricultural learning center for the province. In January this year, the provincial Land Development Department provided free land-ploughing services for more than 50 farmers in the village (which is almost 300 rai of land!) to grow legumes as a part of their organic agriculture promotion activities.On 3-4 February 2010, Raitong Organics Farm attended the Organic Symposium organised by the Ministry of Commerce in Nontaburi province (just outside Bangkok). We had a booth there as our first official public presence. We also took this fair to promote our newly developed Organic Green Tea GABA rice.
ORGANIC GREEN TEA GABA RICE
To boost the taste and nutritional quality in our GABA rice even more, we developed a natural germination process for our jasmine rice using green tea. Green tea is renowned for improving mental alertness, lowering blood pressure and stress, boosting the immune system, regulating cholesterol levels, fighting the build-up of sticky plaque in the arteries, interfering with the cancer process, assisting in weight loss, fighting harmful bacteria and viruses, and protecting the body against free radical damage. Interestingly, you will taste a very slight aftertaste of green tea in the rice, further adding to the deliciousness of our GABA rice.
On the 19th February, the Governor of Sisaket province will come to our village to plough the land himself as a ceremony to open organic agriculture promotion in the village and the province. We will be at that events to collect photos and will post them up as well. So, stay tuned!!
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