Doi Yao–Doi Pha Mon
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| Doi Yao–Doi Pha Mon | |
|---|---|
| ActiveRecorded as grown here since 2000 | |
| Hierarchy | |
| Growing Region | Northern Thailand |
| Geography | |
| Country | Thailand |
| Province/State | Chiang Rai Province |
| District | Thoeng District |
| Coordinates | 19.69, 100.19 |
| Landscape | |
| Area | 830 km² |
| Terrain | Hills on the border with Laos near Phu Chi Fa; approximately Thoeng District |
| Growing history | |
| Documentation | |
| Appellations | 0 |
| Accessions | 0 |
| Conservation | |
| Populations | none documented yet |
Doi Yao–Doi Pha Mon is a cannabis growing area around the Doi Yao and Doi Pha Mon hills, near Phu Chi Fa in Thoeng District of Chiang Rai Province, in the Northern Thailand growing region. Hmong villagers there once wove hemp cloth, and hemp was grown in a royal-initiative project area in the hills in 2020.[1]
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Cultivation
In the past the Hmong of the Doi Yao and Doi Pha Mon area wove cloth from hemp fibre. After Queen Sirikit visited the area on 22 February 2004 and admired the clothes the villagers wore, she had them weave cloth for sale through the SUPPORT arts and crafts project, but the laborious work found no successors. From 3 to 13 February 2020 soldiers of the royal-initiative project ran a hemp-weaving course for villagers at Ban Phaya Lao U, using hemp grown in the project area and tended by soldiers and villagers. Hemp was then still a controlled plant that ordinary villagers could not grow.[1] A clothing brand in Chiang Mai bought hemp cloth from Hmong weavers in Thoeng in 2021.[3]
A Thai PBS documentary of 2017 told of Hmong on the Phu Doi Yao range who were arrested for growing cannabis and whose field was pulled up and burned. The accused said the plant was a local Hmong crop.[4]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "ชาวม้งภูชี้ฟ้าสืบสานพระราชดำริ ทำผลิตภัณฑ์การทอ "ผ้าใยกัญชง"" [Phu Chi Fa Hmong carry on the royal initiative, weaving hemp-fibre cloth]. Thairath (in ไทย). 10 February 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2026.
- ↑ จตุพร พ่วงทอง (26 January 2018). "ป.ป.ส.พาตะลุยแปลง "กัญชง" – ชมวิถีชุมชนม้ง ชีวิตยึดโยง ใยกัญชง ตั้งแต่เกิด-จนตาย" [The narcotics board tours the hemp plots: a Hmong community bound to hemp fibre from birth to death]. Matichon (in ไทย). Retrieved 19 October 2026.
- ↑ "กัญชา และกัญชง ปลุกกระแสความหวัง พลิกฟื้นเศรษฐกิจ จ.เชียงใหม่" [Cannabis and hemp raise hopes of reviving Chiang Mai's economy]. Thai PBS News (in ไทย). 24 June 2021. Retrieved 19 October 2026.
- ↑ "แพะ เดอะซีรีส์ - กัญชง กัญชา" [Scapegoat, the series: hemp and cannabis]. Thai PBS (in ไทย). 16 November 2017. Retrieved 19 October 2026.