On 24 and 25 July 2025, the Inception Workshop for the Pilot Project on Agricultural Mechanization for Sustainable Reduction of Rice Straw and Sugarcane Trash Burning in Thailand was successfully held in Bangkok. The inception workshop is a joint effort by the Department of Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives of Thailand and the Centre for Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization (CSAM) to inaugurate CSAM’s pilot project in Thailand.