BANG SAPHAN, Thailand (AP) — Nature regularly taunts the farmers of Thailand by flooding their fields, but this time she's tossed some of them a potential safety net: the chance to pan for gold. Crops in Bang Saphan district, a rural community 240 kilometers (150 miles) south of Bangkok, were decimated by heavy flooding that affected much of southern Thailand in the week after New Year's. Villagers' opportunity to eke out a meager living diminished further when the waters destroyed a local market. Villagers can use this money to support themselves during this time of crisis, said Kritsada Muadnoi, a gold buyer and adviser to the local government. Local villager Yuang Padthong, 67, said that she earned around 2,000 baht ($57) a month cultivating coconuts, but since her crop and the local market had been destroyed, she was trying her hand in gold panning.
Farmers Battered By Thailand Floods Find A Golden Upside
By KAWEEWIT KAEWJINDA, Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle: World
Fri, 01/20/2017 - 12:54am
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