SLIDE SHOW: Thailand's Other Protests: Pro-Sustainable Food
 Jarrett Wrisley | Bennett Haynes, 24, has worked for AAN for over a year in this corner of Northeastern Thailand. |
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 Jarrett Wrisley | A pot of sticky rice, steaming over a wood fire. |
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 Jarrett Wrisley | Another practice that the AAN and many other agricultural organizations are trying to do away with in Thailand is the burning of rice straw in the dry season. I passed this field, and this burning palm, on the way to Nong Yang. |
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A typical farmhouse on the outskirts of Nong Yang, in Yasothorn Province, Thailand.
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 Jarrett Wrisley | This farmer moved back home from Bangkok to farm dragon fruit—the fruit-producing cactus he's holding—organically. His family also teaches other farmers how to wean themselves off of pesticides and herbicides. |
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 Jarrett Wrisley | Du Lang is a devout Buddhist and a professorial organic farmer and seed researcher. He grows about 170 varieties of rice. |
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 Jarrett Wrisley | A germinated kernel of rice. |
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 Jarrett Wrisley | Baby frogs that will later be released into the paddies to be raised as food and control insects. Catfish also thrive in paddies, in the absence of chemicals. |
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Du Lang's first crop this year.
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Different strains of last year's crop on display.
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 Jarrett Wrisley | Cucumbers being sorted for what Du Lang calls "country genetic" research. |
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 Jarrett Wrisley | Our delicious meal of free range chicken, young jackfruit salad, mangoes, and baskets of sticky rice. |
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