Government scheme links older people with university students who provide mentoring to develop online skills
Somsak Jiteurtragool stands in a sun speckled field, saplings lined in rows behind him. “Hello viewers, today I’m bringing you to Principal Uncle and Auntie’s Forest Garden plot,” he says. A tour begins, and the camera pans up and down various plants: from red wood to makha and mahogany.
He tells the camera that his 600 seedlings, which cost just 27 baht [0.73 USD] each when he planted them five years ago, could be worth up to 10,000 baht [271.19USD] per plant in 10 years’ time.
