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300 taxis parked and turned into vegetable pots during the COVID-19 pandemic

driver no rent I have to park sadly to plant vegetables! 300 taxis in a large cooperative found to be poisonous. No rent. Parked in vegetable pots. send vegetables to sell to restaurants

Today, September 15, 2021, E-Chan news team visited the area of ​​Ratchaphruek, Bangkok. Found more than 300 taxis, which are not expired cars. It was left in the parking lot of a taxi cooperative garage after the Covid-19 epidemic situation. Outbreak for more than 2 years and lockdown measures including the epidemic causing no passengers Not earning enough to rent a taxi

Mr. Thapakorn Asawalertkul, 54, an advisor to Bowon and Ratchaphruek Taxi Cooperatives, said that in the past, the cooperatives and groups of entrepreneurs and taxi owners There are requests for assistance to various agencies. including the car parked at the Ministry of Finance Ministry of Energy Ministry of Transport and spread to park at Talad Tai, Tobacco Factory, Bang Sue Central Station It’s been a long time

But there is nowhere to respond to the remedy. Both interest and gas because of the covid-19 situation Taxi drivers can’t make money. Or some people do not have enough income to meet their expenses. Therefore, they are gradually returning the taxis until they have to spread to park at various points around Bangkok, totaling more than 2,000 cars.

Out of the cooperative’s total taxi fleet of over 3,000, this means fewer than 1,000 of the cooperative’s taxis on the road today, and it owes more than 3,000 contracts to auto finance companies.

The taxi cooperative employees Therefore, the idea was given to employees to grow vegetables in the kitchen garden, such as chili, basil, eggplant, scallions, etc. to be planted on the roof of the taxi. By using bamboo to make a base and using plastic to cover the roof, put soil and plant vegetables. by circling each other to water every morning and evening

to hope that if it grows to the taxi driver Bring to cook without buying And it also reflects that the price of a taxi is a million baht. If you can’t earn money, you have to grow vegetables instead. It will gradually be planted until all taxis are parked in order to get enough vegetables each day. And if there is a lot, it will be sent to wholesale restaurants.

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