The Samutsongkram Excise Department has handed out confiscated booze and cigarettes to local farmers in order for them to make homemade pesticide.
After being biologically fermented for about a week, the solution from the mixture the two ingredients—booze and cigarette— would effectively repel various kinds of insect that feed on their produce, said locals.
The local-wisdom formula has slightly been modified from the traditional fermented vinegar and tobacco formula used back in the older days.
According to officials, the booze and the cigarettes given away to farmers had been seized during raids and used as evidence in closed court cases, deeming it would be more useful to give them away to farmers to make pesticide, given that they, the cigarettes and the booze, would have to be destroyed anyway.
