Thailand Turns To Sugarcane
22 February 2007 Farmers are changing their planting plans to grow crops that can be used to create ethanol for biofuel. Much of the land that is switching over has been contaminated with cadmium, and the Thai government is encouraging sugarcane production in a joint state and private sector campaign to promote alternative crops to rice and edible plants.
Around 2,080 hectares of land along the Mae Tao river basin in Mae Sot is known to be contaminated. The sugarcane harvested as part of the campaign will supply an ethanol-producing factory which is being built by the recently established Mae Sot Clean Energy Co. When it opens next year, the factory hopes to have a capacity of 100,000 liters of ethanol a day.
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