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Thailand sets out standard inspection procedures to faster agricultural goods trade within ASEAN
Writer: Naylinya Chappanapong, Senior Communication Officer, GIZ Thailand’s Agriculture and Food Cluster The Department of Agriculture (DOA) of Thailand has been developing the so-called Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for inspectors who are in charge of phytosanitary measures to ensure consistency at the operational level is in line with international standards on trade with other Southeast …
The world market open for Thailand’s sustainable palm oil
Writer: Thitinai Pongpiriyakit, Field Manager, Sustainable and Climate-friendly Palm Oil Production and Procurement (SCPOPP) Thai government officials are making sure that palm oil growers adopt the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) standard to meet the international criteria, in which sustainability is main objective. About 130 government officials, mostly from the Department of Agricultural Extension …
Thai-German cooperation project to involve 100,000 rice farmers in reducing climate emergency
Writer: Prangthong Jitcharoenkul, Junior Communication Officer, GIZ Thailand’s Agriculture and Food Cluster Thai government with support of Germany will introduce climate friendly practices to at least 100,000 farmers in Central Thailand to cut emission of greenhouse gas in agriculture sector. The switch to low carbon cultivation is expected to decrease emissions by more than 26 …
Knowledge about their plantation area makes Robusta coffee farmers stronger in rising profits
Writer: Weerinpat Janewatanakul, Operations Manager, Improving Smallholder Coffee Farming Systems in Southeast Asia (Coffee+) Robusta coffee growers in Southern Thailand under the Improving Smallholder Coffee Farming Systems in Southeast Asia (Coffee+) Project now know how to calculate their plantation areas to earn more incomes. Pongsak Changthong, a local coffee grower in his 30s, never realized …
Sustainable rice to expand the Thai and global markets: The seminar on sustainable rice practices and market opportunities to be held on 28 May 2019 at Impact Arena Muang Thong Thani
As Thailand is at the forefront of working with rice smallholders to adopt sustainable best practices in rice production, senior executives and farmers are exploring more market opportunities for sustainable rice and will gather to find a way at an international seminar “Trends and Market Opportunities for Sustainable Rice” next Tuesday at Thaifex, World of …
Farmers in six central provinces of Thailand targeted to start low-carbon farming
Writer: Agriculture and Food Cluster Team The Thai government has planned to hold a press conference at the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives in Bangkok this Friday to announce the launch of a joint public private project called Thai Rice NAMA, hoping to transform the Central Plains of Thailand to low-carbon rice farming. The delegation …
The breezing wind of change is coming to Thailand’s rice field
Writer: Naylinya Chappanapong, Senior Communication Officer, GIZ Thailand’s Agriculture and Food Cluster It is less than a year since Louke Koopmans, Global Sustainable Sourcing Manager for Mars Food first visited Thung Kula Rong Hai or field of the crying Kula in Northeastern Thailand. Today, she is back here again to meet farmers’ groups and witness …
Rice farmers in Vietnam guaranteed a market share in sustainable rice production
Writer: Nguyen Ngoc Son, project officer for Land and Agriculture, GIZ Vietnam About 10,000 farmers with standardized rice in Vietnam will have their share in a global market through a joint project between public and private sectors. “There will be promising markets where rice from Vietnamese farmers who work towards the SRP [Sustainable Rice Platform] …
Demonstration plots to prove low-carbon farming is a future of Thai rice sector
Writer: Naylinya Chappanapong, Senior Communication Officer, GIZ Thailand’s Agriculture and Food Cluster Demonstration farm plots of 61.25 rai1 have been set up in the Central Plains of Thailand to encourage local farmers to do low-carbon farming. The plots aim to prove that doing low-carbon farming reduce costs, increase productivity and tackle greenhouse gas emissions from …