In 1971, the Government established the Artificial Rainmaking Research and Development Project within the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, which was ready to offer rainmaking services to farmers. In that year, a very dry period, one of the first places royal rainmaking activities helped was Chanthaburi, a province abundant in fruit. After it proved successful, a group of Chanthaburi residents came to Bangkok to present fruit to His Majesty to show the happy result of the rainmaking. Later in the same year, royal rainmaking activities were carried out in the central plains and the southern region to provide more extensive and effective assistance to farmers. The royal rainmaking staff reported their operations to His Majesty by radio, and His Majesty frequently offered technical suggestions in return. When their operations failed, he usually gave guidelines to solve the problem.