Trat police have launched what’s believed to be the country’s first durian-guarding scheme after thieves stole 1 million baht’s worth of the spiky fruit from a plantation in the eastern province.
After complaints from local farmers that thieves were sneaking into their plantations at night and plundering ripe durians from the trees, Ao Cho police in the Muang district - Kanchanaburi province, central Thailand - is offering the country’s first durian-guarding scheme.
The scheme started on Monday at an orchard owned by a farmer in Huang Nam Khao subdistrict, whose crop of durians worth nearly 1 million baht had just gone missing.
Ao Cho chief inspector Pol Maj Ariyachai Thima said damage from durian thefts last year in Trat was estimated at several million baht after tons of fruit went missing. The urgency of the problem prompted police and local farmers to jointly design the fruit guarding scheme, he added.
Source: nationthailand.com