CHIANG MAI – The Governor of Chiang Mai has decreed that land rotation farming must not be carried out in more than 20,000 burnt areas and that such farming areas must not be expanded or the violators will be strictly prosecuted.
Mr Charoenrit Sanguansat, Governor of Chiang Mai, chaired a meeting of the Working Group of Chiang Mai PM 2.5 Problem Prevention and Solution Command Center, to follow up on the daily forest fire situation. Twenty-one hotspots were found in Mae Chaem district, becoming the highest number to date as the authorities have not been able to extinguish fires in many spots on steep mountains. However, officials have now been mobilized to extinguish the fires and construct firebreaks. Two helicopters from the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation have been used to spray water to help extinguish the fires.
The Governor of Chiang Mai emphasized today that if a fire occurs in a forest or a farming area nearby, and spreads to villagers’ farming areas, the owner of the area where the fire occurred is considered a suspect and if he or she is found to have intentionally started the burning activity, his or her rights to use the area will be revoked immediately, and the culprit will be strictly prosecuted.(NNT)
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