In 1979, the Royal Project Foundation and the Royal Forest Department allocated degraded forest lands to Hmong migrants before the Huay Luek Royal Project Development Center was set up one year later to educate them about highland agriculture. The centre occupies nearly 10,000 rai and more than 2,600 Karen, Hmong, Lahu and lowland villagers have been living together there. Going up to the small town of Fang, it's home to the Royal Agricultural Station Angkhang with plenty of pilot plantations. Focusing on sustainable living, villagers transformed parts of their property into maple forest and learned how to cultivate several kinds of Japanese pumpkins after the rice harvest. "I have a 10 rai plantation of Japanese pumpkins, mini pumpkins and orange Japanese pumpkins.

Source: Bangkok Post March 01, 2020 23:48 UTC