By Sasirat  Kittichungchit, BBA#16

Spending a week in Leverkusen, Germany is one of the very enriching trips I have had. All thanks to the Bayer Young Environmental Envoy Program that allowed me to experience the most advanced technology, which could have shaped the future in Crop Science, Material Science and Healthcare. I, with other 49 representatives from 17 countries from Asia and Latin America, visited the Research Institutes and investigated the complexity of fungicide formation and its elaborate testing about the effects on humans, ecology and environment before being released to the market. We discussed the balance between traditional farming and genetically modified method, with the problems of increasing world population, reducing arable lands and climate change. I, thus, shared my opinion on the sufficiency agriculture we have in Thailand and the responses were very welcoming.