Last night SBS television news in Australia featured a story on buffalos in Thailand. According to CNN’s Dan Rivers, farmers in northern Thailand are turning to buffalos to plough their fields instead of tractors. He interviewed a local farmer, Jile Songkasri, who said that high fuel prices and the bad economy had encouraged him to dust off his old plough [...]
A buffalo come-back?
July 10th, 2008 by Andrew Walker · 9 Comments
Tags: Environment · Northern Thailand · Sufficiency Economy