Harvesting starts usually at 4 o'clock in the morning to avoid heat and finishes around 8 o'clock. Here, waterchestnuts are being cleaned in the klong.

Selling of waterchestnuts to middlemen.

Many old people or housewives work at home during two months to peal waterchestnuts for a income of 4 Baht/kg.

One of the numerous public dumps around cities where all kinds of wastes are being buried.

Spraying chemicals became unavoidable with the adoption of high yield varieties. Unfortunately, the environmental impact is not always taken in consideration, notably with regard to water quality.

Hydraulic structure
Mae Klong area

An endless task : dredging canals and cleaning water hyacinths

High Yield Variety rice

Floating rice in the flood plain 
(north of the delta)

Rats : the major pest in the 
Chao Phraya delta

Onion field irrigated by sprinklers

Pumping water from well, 
for baby corn irrigation

Farmers harvesting Chinese keys

          Taro field

Asparagus culture

Water chestnuts
Suphan Buri Province

Rose field          

Mango trees cultivated
on raised-beds.
Damnoen Saduak area