{"id":2172,"date":"2010-08-25T11:21:26","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T11:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2172"},"modified":"2010-08-25T11:21:26","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T11:21:26","slug":"a_program_that_would_be_useful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2172","title":{"rendered":"A Program That Would Be Useful In Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalprojectthailand.com\/general\/english\/index.html\">The Royal Project Foundation<\/a>&nbsp;is a program set up by the King of Thailand in 1969.&nbsp; The aim of the project was to encourage farmers to grow crops other than poppies (which fueled the drug trade and supported all sorts of unsavory characters).&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>According to their website:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em><font color=\"#666666\">&#8220;Under the directorship of H.S.H. Prince Bhisatej Rajani,this Royal Project has pursued its mission in collaboration with the Royal Thai government, foreign governments, universities, public and private agencies and volunteers.&#8221;<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><font color=\"#666666\">The website lists the four goals of the program:<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>1. Offer a helping hand to all humankind;<\/p>\n<p>2. Ensure natural resources for conserving a sustainable future;<\/p>\n<p>3. Eradicate opium poppy cultivation and opium derived addiction problems;<\/p>\n<p>4. Encourage a wise and proper balance in utilising and conserving land and forest resources.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">From what I understand, the program has been successful.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelyon-online.com\/\">Michael Yon<\/a>, in a Facebook post, stated that he will be doing some further investigation of the project to see how it might be used in Afghanistan.&nbsp; Since Michael will be returning to Afghanistan shortly, I hope he will be able to share his information and see it put to good use.<em><\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Project Foundation&nbsp;is a program set up by the King of Thailand in 1969.&nbsp; The aim of the project was to encourage farmers to grow crops other than poppies (which fueled the drug trade and supported all sorts of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2172\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}