Field burning on the sideway of highway road 24 nangrong buriram

[Admin]

Controlled burn on road 24 nangrong buriram.

This is the 3rd time I drive on this road and see them burning the field on the sideway of highway road 24 ON NIGHT TIME.
I think it is dangerous. Look by yourself.



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Controlled or prescribed burning, also known as hazard reduction burning or Swailing is a technique sometimes used in forest management, farming, prairie restoration or greenhouse gas abatement. Fire is a natural part of both forest and grassland ecology and controlled fire can be a tool for foresters. Hazard reduction or controlled burning is conducted during the cooler months to reduce fuel buildup and decrease the likelihood of serious hotter fires.[1] Controlled burning stimulates the germination of some desirable forest trees, thus renewing the forest. Some seeds, such as sequoia, remain dormant until fire breaks down the seed coating.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_burn

[nookiebear]

They've been doing it for a couple of weeks now ,,,all the way between Nang Rong & Nong Ki

[isanbirder]

If it is field burning (not undergrowth fires along the road side), it is the normal method used in this part of the world for clearing rice stubble.  It is cheap and effective and, while not ecologically the best solution, all that poor villagers can afford.  Most of the fields round my area are blackened by the fires;  this morning I found the stubble in my favourite birding wood (which is actually a rice paddy with lots of trees) had been burnt... luckily it didn't seem to affect the birds much, as they spend most of their time in the canopy.