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Why Si Sawat is a growing area
- Bangkok Biz News, 18 February 2021, excerpting the book ปฏิวัติกัญชาสยาม ๒๕๖๒: a 56-year-old Karen man in a village of Si Sawat District, reached by boat, describes the cannabis varieties his village grows and how Karen sow cannabis with their upland rice. He says the planting goes on, hidden and on a smaller scale, since cannabis was made illegal. The village is not named.
- Thai Post, 1 October 2018: officials of Si Sawat District cut down 140 cannabis plants growing in the forest on the summit of Khao Bo Lukrang, at Ban Tha Sanun (village 4, Dan Mae Chalaep subdistrict). The report does not say who grew them; nothing in it connects this field to the Karen account, and the article keeps the two apart.
- No accession from the district is held.
Growing status
The status is Active. The 2018 field shows cannabis grown in the district since 2000, and the Karen informant speaks of the growing in the present tense. His interview is undated; the excerpt was published in 2021, and the book's title carries the year 2562 (2019). No source says that growing has ended. No first or last year is set, since the status is Active.
The village and the border
- The excerpt calls the informant's people "western border Karen", and he speaks of the Karen "at the border of Kanchanaburi". Si Sawat District itself does not touch the border with Myanmar: its western neighbours are Sai Yok and Thong Pha Phum districts. The article therefore does not place the village on the border.
- The author reached the village by boat; the excerpt gives no other clue to where it is.
Variety names
The names chang phueak, chong wa, foi thong and kan yao are the informant's, transliterated from the Thai script of the excerpt, with literal glosses. Chong wa is the Karen name in the excerpt's Thai letters; no Karen-script or romanised Karen form was found. The names are the village's own, not named lines or seed-trade strains. "Seventh and eighth months" follows the excerpt; it does not say whether the lunar calendar is meant. The pests are เพลี้ย (phlia), the Thai word for small sap-sucking insects.
The book
The book itself was not obtained; the article cites the newspaper excerpt only. The excerpt names the author (นิพัทธ์พร เพ็งแก้ว) and the publisher (เดชา ศิริภัทร) but gives no date of publication.
How the border is drawn
- The border is a proxy drawn on Si Sawat District (OpenStreetMap relation 18931299), about 3,000 km² as drawn, the figure in the infobox. The district office gave the district's area as 3,295.9 km² in 2024. The district is the unit because the informant's village is not named and the 2018 field lies in it.
- The coordinates are those of Ban Tha Sanun (OpenStreetMap), the village named in the 2018 report.
- The border is not drawn from accession or news points.
Sources not used
- Seed-company pages about strains named for Kanchanaburi or for the Karen were seen in searches and are not used: they are sales copy and do not concern Si Sawat.