{"id":5596,"date":"2020-12-22T11:55:34","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T10:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/th.bteh.org\/?p=5596"},"modified":"2021-01-15T15:41:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T14:41:02","slug":"first-results-of-the-tom-yum-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bteh.org\/th\/first-results-of-the-tom-yum-project\/","title":{"rendered":"First results of the Tom Yum project"},"content":{"rendered":"

First results of Tom Yum project very positive!<\/p>

BTEH tackles the protection of elephants and mitigation of human-elephant conflict at the root by inspiring farmers to grow biological elephant-repelling crops, increase biodiversity, develop sustainable income, and contribute to reforestation.<\/p>

Many farmers in Thailand are now growing crops that attract elephants, such as pineapple or sugar cane. With the Tom Yum project, we offer help to change to elephant repelling crops, such as hot pepers, garlic, lemon grass, galangal, lime, onion, and coriander -ingredients of the spicy Tom Yum soup. For this, we use the principles of biological agriculture and permaculture. The first results of David Owen\u2019s Master research look very promising: in two months elephants have destroyed 96.5% of the pineapple, while they only touched 5.2 % of the hot pepers, 4.8% of the kaffir lime, and 2.5% of the citronella. This mostly happened because these crops were planted near the pineapple. The lemon grass, lime and karonda did not suffer damage from elephants at all.<\/p>

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