The Thailand Royal Rainmaking Project was royally initiated in 1995[citation needed] by King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand. Due to the fact that many Thai farmers were experiencing drought, he developed a solution to the water shortage.[1] The King of Thailand discovered that many counties and remote areas had faced problems because of drought.[2] In particular, Thai farmers were not be able to produce the crops. Consequently, crops would be damaged or not as productive both of which resulted in economic losses. After that, this project debuted on July 20, 1969 as designed according to his plans. The first rainmaking process was done at Khao Yai National Park by scattering dry ice flakes over the top of cloud in the sky which resulted in rain falling He received a gold medal for the Royal Rainmaking Project from the Brussels Eureka 2001 award as the invention that is beneficial to the world.[