What is the reason behind the annual burn in Chiang Mai?

lmfao - yes, its an agricultural thing.

It is cheap to clear the ground for next season's growth.

Look, it is forbidden. What is forbidden, makes more fun ...

It is not burning around Chiang Mai that's the problem. Chiang Mai sits in an area that gets wind patterns blowing smoke in from Laos, Myanmar, and the Eastern side of Thailand, multiplying the problem.

There have been people talking about the smoke and pollution problem for many years and that's the problem, they just talk, or they talk about how to measure it, or they talk about where it is, or they talk about making safe places or they talk about air purifiers, or they talk about who is burning, or they talk about laws, or they talk about inversions, or they talk about others countries, or they talk about action plans, or they talk about what districts should do, or they talk..... or they talk.... or they talk... And what do they do at smogathon, they talk about stuff, draw stuff, make lists, make plans, present plans and ideas, but again it's just talk.

Why do I know this? I have 11 years in Chiang Mai, I have observed lots of this. But I am in the LINE group of the Chiang Mai Breathe Council , and why do 636 like this page because since it was around 200 people I have been promoting it. The LINE group again just proposes more of this talking, every day. Then the is Chiang Mai Green Council and they also talk a lot. Then there was a group of farangs talking about smoke with a reputable local expat website. And now 50 different government groups talking.

The answer is simple I posted it recently

We don't need masks!

We don't need safety zones!

We don't need to fire limited supplies of water up into the air!

We need to stop burning fields!

We need to stop burning forests!

We just need STOP BURNING!

We need to punish the burners!

Please tell everyone this!

Lastly, I make a post once a year usually...

Can we pin a post about the smoke? So that people read about the smoke rather than making another post about the smoke? I think the smoke sucks, but I live here in the smoke and I deal with the smoke. I just don't want to talk about the smoke every day and hear about people in the smoke whinging about the smoke and the people out of the smoke whinging about people whinging about the smoke and posting pictures with no smoke. You are not going to affect the smoke one single bit, so live with the smoke, do what you have to do to survive the smoke or leave the smoke (and do it quietly). And I know there is no smoke at the beach, I just don't want to see no smoke. Unfortunately I can't pay for a pinned post about the smoke.

A lot of illegal burning

They do it just for fun! Of course it's agricultural.

I guess it's not common knowledge .... Umm... A LOT of seeds need to be burned in order to germinate and burning the rice crops in a specific pattern (then mixing the burned sludge with other shiz) yields over twice the amount of rice-output of not doing it. There's docos about this. That's how I learnt.

Yes the farmers do it in Indonesia as well .. which is why Singapore gets a haze in July to October

Annual? There's someone always burning something. If you mean the main burning season, economics and a fetish for hed thob mushrooms.

yes .