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‘Hom Mali’ rice farmers in Northeastern Thailand enjoy sweet smell of success
Writer: Prangthong Jitcharoenkul, Junior Communication Officer, GIZ Thailand’s Agriculture and Food Cluster Standing in a field of Hom Mali rice in Nayear district of Ubon Ratchathani, Boonterm Luandee happily looked at her improved rice production which brought her higher income in recent years. The 50-year-old farmer, who has grown rice for more than two decades, …
Multi-partner cooperation to put international standard on a rice plate
Writer: Agriculture and Food Cluster Team Rice experts gathered in Bangkok for the South East Asia’s first-ever training on the Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP) to discuss appropriate practices for rice cultivation for the region. “Our farmers produce good-quality rice,” said Duangporn Vithoonjit, an official attached to Chainat Rice Research Center, “But the SRP boosts confidence …
More farmers in Northeastern Thailand to grow low-carbon rice: The second awareness raising on climate change event to be held on 14 December 2018 in Khon Kaen
Writer: Agriculture and Food Cluster Team Khon Kean, 4 December 2018: Farmers from Central and Northeastern Thailand will be growing rice based on a low-emission cultivation to reduce greenhouse gases. Through a panel discussion jointly supported by Thai Rice Department and the Thai-German Climate Programme (TGCP) – Agriculture, a group of rice farmers and experts …
A training center to boost climate friendly palm oil production to be opened in Southern Thailand
Writer: Kanokwan Saswattecha, Project Manager, Sustainable and Climate-Friendly Palm Oil Production and Procurement (SCPOPP) A training centre for sustainable palm oil plantation will soon open in Krabi province to accommodate the first batch of 500 farmers in three southern provinces of Thailand. Through this centre, small-scale farmers in Surat Thani, Krabi and Chumphon provinces will …
Farmers and citizens in Southeast Asia to face ‘lesser impacts’ from natural disaster with the help of disaster risk transfer solutions
Writer: Metta Kongphan-apirak, Project Coordinator, Remote Sensing-based Information and Insurance for Crops in Emerging Economies (RIICE) While countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are more exposed to natural disasters, experts believe learning best practices on disaster-risk management from global examples and experiences can help each other deals with the challenge more effectively. …
Press Release: Oil palm farmers in Southern Thailand to save production cost and environment through a new cooperation project between Thailand and Germany
Writer: Agriculture and Food Cluster Team Press Release Oil palm farmers in Southern Thailand to save production cost and environment through a new cooperation project between Thailand and Germany: A kick off event to be held on 28 November 2018 in Bangkok. Bangkok, 22 November 2018: The first batch of 500 farmers in three southern …
‘Hom Mali’ rice farmer enjoys being inspected on her cultivation standard
Writer: Prangthong Jitcharoenkul, Junior Communication Officer, GIZ Thailand’s Agriculture and Food Cluster Banjong Suchantha, 51, a rice farmer in the Northeastern province of Thailand, kept smiling while talking to an external auditor at her village in Ban Wang Khok of Ubon Ratchathani. This was the first time they met and it was her first time …
Partners join up to kick off an initiative to better Vietnamese farmers’ lives
Writer: Nguyen Ngoc Son, project officer for Land and Agriculture, GIZ Vietnam The second phase of the Better Rice Initiative Asia (BRIA II) will be launched in the Mekong Delta provinces at the end of this month. Olam International, together with Department of Cooperative Economy and Rural and German International Cooperation (GIZ) plan to launch …
New Technology helps rubber farmers’ livelihood
Writer: Agriculture and Food Cluster Team GIZ Thailand Agriculture and Food, the Rubber Authority of Thailand (RAOT), stakeholders in the rubber supply chains and experts met to discuss improvement of data collection with the use of technology on “Strengthening the rubber supply partnership with the ICT application” at Rama Garden Hotel, Bangkok. “We need a good data management in order …