# Mae Chai

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|subdivision_name2      = [Phayao](/source/Phayao_Province)
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|subdivision_name3      =[Mae Chai](/source/Mae_Chai_District)
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'''Mae Chai''' ({{langx|th|แม่ใจ}}, {{IPA|th|mɛ̂ː t͡ɕāj|pron}}) is a small town and subdistrict (''[tambon](/source/tambon)'') in  [Mae Chai District](/source/Mae_Chai_District), in [Phayao Province](/source/Phayao_Province), [Thailand](/source/Thailand). It is the principal town in the district. The town is split with ''tambon'' [Si Thoi](/source/Si_Thoi%2C_Phayao). As of 2005, it has a population of 5,094 people. It is in the northwestern part of the province not far from the border with [Lampang Province](/source/Lampang_Province). It lies along National Road 1 (Phahon Yothin Road),<ref name="Thai1999">{{cite book|author=Kānsư̄sān hǣng Prathēt Thai|title=Annual report|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QGkEAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=23 January 2012|year=1999|publisher=Communications Authority of Thailand|page=77}}</ref> and is connected by road to [Phayao](/source/Phayao) in the south.<ref name="GM">{{cite map|title= Maps|publisher=[Google Maps](/source/Google_Maps)}}{{nonspecific|date=August 2019}}</ref> To the north along the highway are [Pa Faek](/source/Pa_Faek%2C_Phayao) and then [Mae Yen](/source/Mae_Yen) across into [Chiang Rai Province](/source/Chiang_Rai_Province). The ''tambon'' has 10 villages under its jurisdiction. It lies partly within [Mae Puem National Park](/source/Mae_Puem_National_Park). [Mae Chai River](/source/Mae_Chai_River) is the river running through the area.

==Economy==
In the 1950s, the area was reported to be heavily forested but it saw an extraordinary growth in rice production in the 1990s.<ref name="ForsythWalker2008">{{cite book|last1=Forsyth|first1=Tim|last2=Walker|first2=Andrew|title=Forest guardians, forest destroyers: the politics of environmental knowledge in northern Thailand|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7kqU1SauD2kC&pg=PA132|accessdate=23 January 2012|year=2008|publisher=University of Washington Press|isbn=978-0-295-98792-7|page=132}}</ref> The tambon also has great conditions with temperature and rainfall for highland wheat production, which has been exploited in villages such as [Pha Daeng](/source/Pha_Daeng) with improved technology.<ref name="Center1993">{{cite book|author=John E. Woolston, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center|title=Wheat, barley, and triticale cultivars: a list of publications in which national cereal breeders have noted the cooperation of germplasm they received from CIMMYT|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gvRMKhPUhaMC&pg=PA60|accessdate=23 January 2012|year=1993|publisher=CIMMYT|isbn=978-968-6923-01-8|page=60}}</ref> [Red kidney beans](/source/Red_kidney_beans) are also grown in the area.<ref name="McKinnon1989">{{cite book|last=McKinnon|first=John|title=Hill tribes today: problems in change|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DZluAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=23 January 2012|year=1989|publisher=White Lotus|isbn=978-974-8495-25-5|page=491}}</ref>

==References==
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Category:Tambon of Phayao province
Category:Populated places in Phayao province

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