BULLETIN – Thailand, 2016 Wet Season – Volume 1 Mid-season rice area and irrigated rice yield forecast for the 2016 Main Wet Season in Thailand Rice area progression in the early stage
Radio Thailand interviews Mr. Suriyan Vichitlekarn, a Senior Regional Advisor to ASEAN Sustainable Agrifood Systems project about RIICE (Remote Sensing-based Information and Insurance for Crops in Emerging Economies). (5 minutes)
The Government of Thailand is providing protection to its rice farming constituency through the Government Disaster Relief scheme since 2004 which is being expanded through an insurance top-up scheme since 2011. Since 2012, the RIICE
The State Government of Tamil Nadu, India initiated several policy level measures in alleviating the losses in the aftermath of the 2015 devastating floods based on a timely assessment report containing flood maps and statistics
Los Baños, Philippines and Purasca, Switzerland – Standing rice crops in some parts of the world are routinely devastated by storms and extreme weather events, threatening the food security and livelihood of half of humanity.
Never in his life had farmer Boonserm Gochouy experienced a drought as bad as that of last year. Due to a shortage in water supply, his 62 rai of rice in Central Thailand’s Chai Nat