The person behind the success of vetiver technology in Thailand is His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the first person in the country to recognize the potential value of vetiver for soil and water conservation. His Majesty advocated the idea that studies and experiments should be conducted on vetiver grass, initially to Dr. Sumet Tantivejkul, Secretary-General of the Royal Development Projects Board on 22 June 1991, and later to concerned parties on various occasions, particularly when he visited the sites of the Royal Development Study Centres and the Royal Development Projects.
The study on vetiver grass has been done for about 17 years now. Although it has been a long time, the grass has created a number of benefits which are highly effective. It is such a miracle that this kind of grass can produce benefits for different area conditions may it be the plains or the mountains, shallow soil or deep soil. For the deep soil, it appears that the root of this grass can go down up to 5 to 6 metres and does not spread to the sides which means that it is not dangerous to the root system of the plants that are useful.
The beginning of this grass was when I had an audience with HRH the Princess Mother. At that time, she was not well. She felt a little depressed with the illness. I then said to her that I needed her help to bring benefits of one kind of grass to show to the entire nation. She suddenly became active. She thought that everything had already been studied. I said that this was the thing that had not yet been studied or had been studied very little. I thus narrated to her about the miracle of vetiver grass which is just an ordinary plant but with attributes that can bring up benefits of other plants. I have never imagined that such an ordinary grass can help promote productive farming.
The person behind the success of vetiver technology in Thailand is His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the first person in the country to recognize the potential value of vetiver for soil and water conservation. His Majesty advocated the idea that studies and experiments should be conducted on vetiver grass, initially to Dr. Sumet Tantivejkul, Secretary-General of the Royal Development Projects Board on 22 June 1991, and later to concerned parties on various occasions, particularly when he visited the sites of the Royal Development Study Centres and the Royal Development Projects.
The study on vetiver grass has been done for about 17 years now. Although it has been a long time, the grass has created a number of benefits which are highly effective. It is such a miracle that this kind of grass can produce benefits for different area conditions may it be the plains or the mountains, shallow soil or deep soil. For the deep soil, it appears that the root of this grass can go down up to 5 to 6 metres and does not spread to the sides which means that it is not dangerous to the root system of the plants that are useful.
The beginning of this grass was when I had an audience with HRH the Princess Mother. At that time, she was not well. She felt a little depressed with the illness. I then said to her that I needed her help to bring benefits of one kind of grass to show to the entire nation. She suddenly became active. She thought that everything had already been studied. I said that this was the thing that had not yet been studied or had been studied very little. I thus narrated to her about the miracle of vetiver grass which is just an ordinary plant but with attributes that can bring up benefits of other plants. I have never imagined that such an ordinary grass can help promote productive farming.
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