The Thai government believes it has found the easiest and fastest way to reforest areas that are damaged by activities such as agriculture.
This first mission was carried out in the forest region of Phitsanulok, in an area of approximately 800 hectares. Over the next five years, the results of this action will be monitored and evaluated, with the expectation that by the end of 2017 it will realise notable changes.
The pumps include seeds of trees local and phayungs, mongs, maka and kaboks, wrapped in a mixture of soil, clay and compost, to facilitate germination.
The concept of ‘seed bombs’ was created by the Japanese farmer, biologist and philosopher Masanobu Fukuoka, author of a method of natural farming. With the perfection of this technique and the use of aircraft can be achieved plant approximately 900,000 trees in one day.
The oldest “registration bombing seeds ” dates from 1930, when aircraft for reforestation of some areas in the mountains of Honolulu, Hawaii, after forest fires were used. In Africa, this technique is used to sow pasture for livestock feed.
Orto project that is beside the point to mention is ‘SeedBomb’, an idea of Lockheed Martin Aerospace to reforest the Earth with aerial bombs consisting of capsules of biodegradable plastic, you contain an artificial soil planted with seeds , to be dropped from the air .
Clearly these techniques are not used massively because of the cost involved to have airplanes, but it is an option that can be considered for the current situation of our country. Recall that a recent report by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) puts Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina among the ten countries that dismantled over the past 25 years. Between 1990 and 2015 our country lost more than 7.6 million hectares (similar to that of Scotland surface), at a rate of 300,000 hectares per year.
