The Million Years Stone
Park has donated Chonburi-bred buffalos to farming families in 11
districts in a belated celebration of HM the Queen’s Aug. 12 birthday.
Teerarak Suthathiwong
The Million Years Stone Park donated Chonburi-bred buffalos to
farming families in 11 districts in a belated celebration of HM the
Queen’s Aug. 12 birthday.
Park executives and Chonburi Permanent Secretary Chawalit Saeng-Uthai
joined Banglamung District Chief Sakchai Taengho and Suan
Panomwattanakul, chairman of the Chonburi Cultural Council and other
guests at the Sept. 5 ceremony.
The park gave 22 buffaloes - five of them juveniles - away to families
in 11 districts. The donations, worth a total of 900,000 baht, were made
in hopes they will be used in the annual October buffalo races.
Suan said that while Chonburi organizes annual buffalo races, not many
of the beasts are being bred locally. By giving them away, the hopes are
more buffaloes will be bred and raced, he said.
“The objective is to keep breeding the Chonburi buffaloes and expand in
numbers, in order to keep the traditional buffalo racing that is popular
in Chonburi active,” Suan said.
