Through his own initiatives and supported numerous experiments conducted by various Royal Development Study Centres as well as several cooperating agencies, vetiver has come a long way from an obscure plant to become one of the most popular plants in Thailand in just a few years. Vetiver was, and still is, referred to as "miracle grass".
On 31 August 2009, His Majesty gave the speech to the Privy Councilor and the representatives of the agencies involved in the Development and Promotion of the Utilization of Vetiver Grass Project According to the Royal Initiative at Klai Kangwol Palace, Prachuap Khiri Khan Province which are summarized as follow