Agricultural Technology Promotion Center for Economic Insects Chiang Mai Province Established in 1980 It is an agency under the Department of Agricultural Extension. Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives It plays a major role in research studies. Test and apply economic insect farming technology Promote and transfer economic insect culture technology as a center for development, production, expansion and distribution of economic insect species, as well as providing basic product quality inspection services and diagnosis of diseases and pests of economic insects to farmers and interested parties. It is also a tourist attraction. Agribusiness that is open to both Thai and foreign tourists to get to know and learn about the life of bees and important economic insects of Thailand. Each year, both Thai and foreign tourists visit to study work and travel to the learning points that the center has exhibited, such as learning points on beekeeping, bee breeding, burrow bee, cricket, lac, queen bee, and product processing. and also provide “Honey Shop” product display and distribution point where tourists can watch, taste and buy real, good quality honey and other processed products. of community enterprises and entrepreneurs
Tourism program :
Learning point/base interesting activities
1. Breeding bees. Open house for breeding bees. (Acquaintance with bees, life cycle and well-being of bees in the hive) Keeping and maintaining bee health checks collecting nectar from flowers
and sap. Preliminary analysis of honey quality.
2.Honey bees Wild bees make money. (Get to know the burrowing bees and natural nest building. Traditional poaching beekeeping techniques Modern honey beekeeping Protecting against the pests of honey bees Techniques for collecting good quality honey
3. Chan Rong Open House Chan Rong (Get to know the amazing mini bee, the best pollinator). propagation Nectar, pollen and resin collection behavior of saplings Making resin extracts and their uses
4. Crickets
Crickets are the world's reserve protein food source. Commercial cricket species Standard farming techniques and management Processing crickets as food
Learning point/base interesting activities
5. Shellac: Get to know lac insects/life cycle and benefits. Transplanting plants for lac culture farming techniques Care and harvest Technology for protection and nursery of lac species during the dry season
6. The queen bee opens the experience of finding the queen bee queen in the hive. birth of queen bee The Great Duties of the Queen Bee Techniques for cultivating queen bees
7. Processed products
Watch/Taste/Touch A variety of bee products, natural gifts. The benefits of bee products
Tips for buying honey Processing bee products into products for daily use
Route links with other attractions:
- Chiang Mai Night Safari Night Zoo, distance 750 m.
- Royal Park Ratchaphruek, a distance of 1 km.
- Wat Inthrawat (Wat Ton Kwen), a distance of 2.5 km.
- Wat Phra That Doi Kham, a distance of 4.4 km.
- Baan Tawai Handicraft Center, a distance of 10 km.
- Wiang Kum Kam, a distance of 11 km.
Mr.Luesak, the owner of Kradae Chae Monkey Training Center, has learned how to train monkeys from his father. Every morning he usually leads monkeys to coconut grove to teach them to climbing coconut trees, to select ripe coconuts and pick off coconuts. Besides, you can also stay overnight at Mr. Luesak with reasonable price. In addition, Kradae Chae Monkey Training Center brought male monkey to teach how to collect coconuts which monkeys can collect around 500-1000 coconuts per day.
The agricultural tourism is run by the community. There are several activities which are riding tractor to the pier, rowing a boat, seeing the pomelo orchard, learning about planting, tasting the pomelo, eating the local food, watching the shows ,and homestay.
Travel Programs
1. 1 day costs 350 baht per person: welcoming tourists, riding a tractor, riding a boat, enjoying the nature, visiting pomelo orchard, having meals, buying orchard products, sending tourists back
2. 2 days 1 night costs 990 baht per person:
The first day: welcoming tourists, guiding to the agricultural tourism learning center, having dinner at visitor reception center, attending the Bai Sri Su Kwan ceremony, watching the shows of local children, joining activities, and staying at homestay
The second day: having breakfast at visitor reception center, buying souvenirs, and sending tourists back
Other near attractions
1. Hat Nam Phrom - 5 kilometers far
2. Kaeng Tad Sai - 9 kilometers far
A village that grow organic vegetables. Visitors can come and learn how to compost from garbage, making compost from oyster snails, and cultivation of organic vegetables from the royal family of Chakphan Pensiri.
Able to visit every day.
Tel 08199896279
Ban Song Yae Christian Church is located in Thai Charoen district, Yasothon. There is a history in 1908 that there were 5 families who fled from different places to live in this area, they fled for the same reason, which was accused being ghouls and they were therefore attacked and drove away.
It is the 4th church, planned for construction in 1936. Villagers gathered wood and built it in 1947. The shape of the church was built in Thai art style, width 16 meters, length 57 meters. It is the largest in Thailand, using 80,000 wooden planks as roofing boards, using 360 columns of different sizes, mostly wooden poles. The pillars in the middle row are the largest and longest with 260 trees, more than 10 meters high from the ground. The floor planks are of red wood and large Takhian wood. The wooden bench can hold over a thousand people.
The church bell has a diameter of almost 2 feet in a tall bell tower built in the style of a bell tower in typical Thai temples. But strange that it is separate from the church and because the wood that has been gathered is a lot Therefore, the remaining wood was used to build Ban Song Yae Pittaya School.
In the past, the Phu Ruea High Altitude Agricultural Experiment Station was to test the winter fruit varieties for planting in the northeastern highlands, including apple cultivars. and peach varieties for eating fresh In addition, Phu Ruea High Land Agricultural Experiment Station has also made efforts to collect and study grape varieties for making wine, including grapes for eating fresh, to develop varieties and encourage farmers in Loei Province to continue planting.