Her Majesty the Queen visiting members of the Supplementary Qccupations and Related Techniques Project,
and members of the Pa-Rak-Nam Reafforestation Programme set up through Her Majesty the Queen's
initiative, in the vicinity of Kut Na Kham Village, Swang Daen Din District, Sakon Nakhon Province.
The Ban Chan SUPPORT project is based in Muang Sub-district, Ban Muang District, Sakon
Nakhon Province. Much of Ban Chan is covered in forest. It also grows rice on lowlands and has
watersheds. Most of the villagers are farmers but their rice yields are rather poor because of
felling of the trees for logging and the invasion of communist guerillas in the past. The villagers,
however, were strongly united among themselves, mainly because of their acknowledgement of