Representatives of Phiman tambon administration organisation in Na Kae district of Nakhon Phanom with a container of yang na oil being used to fuel a motorised plough on Wednesday. (Photos by Patanapong Sripiachai)NAKHON PHANOM: A local administration organisation says it has been successfully testing an oil extracted from a local tree as an alternative fuel for farm machinery, and has found it to be more efficient than diesel. The experiment began with an equal mixture of yang na oil and diesel. His organisation used yang na oil because there were about 300 of the trees in Ban Phiman village, tambon Phiman. Officials of the local administration organisation drill a hole in a yang na tree to extract its oil.

Source: Bangkok Post May 30, 2018 09:11 UTC