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The Ban Mueang Ruang OTOP Innovative Tourism Community serves as a learning center for waste bank management, organic vegetables, safe food production, and community enterprises, including fermented pork (Naem), spicy chili paste (Nam Prik Ta Daeng), hand-stitched textiles, and a community market demonstration center.
Elders of the community have passed down the story that around the year 1854 (B.E. 2397), a group of people migrated from Ban Luang in Doi Saket District, Chiang Mai Province, and established a new village in this area, naming it “Ban Mueang Luang” after their original home.
In 1984 (B.E. 2527), during the tenure of Village Headman Bunlert Suwanchit, a formal request was made to change the village’s name from “Ban Mueang Luang” to “Ban Mueang Ruang.” The word “Luang” (ลวง) was changed to “Ruang” (รวง) to better reflect the village’s agricultural identity, as the area was known for its beautiful rice fields with golden rice panicles. This name remains in use today.
