Vegetables Grown in Northern Thailand



Vegetables Grown in Northern Thailand

Any place in Thailand where the temperature can drop to zero Celsius in the winter has to be considered exotic. Yet 160 kilometers north of Chiang Mai and at an altitude of 140 meters, the Royal Project at Doi Angkhang Station is nothing if not different from the rest of the country. The immediate climate allows a number of foreign flowers, fruits and vegetables to flourish here and in other villages around Thailand north country. That Thailand hill tribes are growing these plants at all is thanks to the local population with a suitable means of earning a living.

The project's first forays into this area came in 1969, with the grafting of foreign peach stocks to local trees. Since then, plums, kiwi fruit, avocados, strawberries and raspberries have all been added to the list of fruits grown in Northern Thailand but not originally from the region. The list of foreign flowers here is even lengthier.

A number of vegetables not native to the Kingdom have also made their mark in recent years. Among these are carrots and cabbages, beetroots and butternut squash, radishes and Japanese pumpkins, any one of which could leave you bewildered, wondering if you are indeed in Thailand at all.


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