Money-making career: Turning worthless salt into wisdom-infused flour

Samut Songkhram, Samut Songkhram residents use Thai wisdom to transform worthless salt into fragrant flour, increasing its value and exporting it abroad, generating income for local people. Samut Songkhram Province has more than 5,822 rai of salt farms. They extract fresh salt from sea salt through the process of satu, or cleaning and sterilizing according to the wisdom of local people since ancient times. Somyot Lamwan, president of the Bang Nang Li Flour Community Enterprise, Amphoe Amphawa, said that in the past, salt farmers did not see the value of fresh salt, so they dug it up and threw it away or used it to fill the fields. The Bang Nang Li Flour Community Enterprise uses the wisdom of local people and their ancestors to make fresh salt into face scrubs and masks, and has developed it by adding various herbs to make it hygienic, clean, safe, modern, and convenient to use. In addition, there are inspections and research with the Ministry of Science and the Ministry of Public Health. At present, the B ang Nang Li Community Enterprise has been able to expand its products into many types of flour, such as face and body masks, body scrubs, acne-reducing powder, and herbal soaps. It has also been guaranteed to be a 4-star OTOP product of Samut Songkhram Province. In addition to being popular in the country, it is also distributed in Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Italy, and France. Those who are interested, if you have a chance to visit Samut Songkhram Province and would like to learn or study how to make fermented flour from salt, please contact the Bang Nang Li Flour Community Enterprise. They will be happy to teach you for free. Source: Thai News Agency