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Royal Irrigation Department-GIZ launch a project to enhance water management and sustainable agriculture
Story and Photos: Royal Irrigation Department Dr Thaweesak Thanadachopol, Deputy Director-General for Operation and Maintenance of Royal Irrigation Department (RID), recently chaired the Inception Workshop of the Enhancing Climate Resilience in Thailand through Effective Water Management and Sustainable Agriculture Project. representatives from RID, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), …
Innovative climate-risk finance project launched in Thailand
Story and Photos: Agriculture and Food Cluster/ GIZ Thailand GIZ introduced the latest four-million-euro project for upscaling ASEAN farmer’s access to financial tools essential for enhancing climate resilience and gender response in agricultural sector. Commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Innovative Climate Risk Financing for the Agricultural Sector in …
Thailand successfully establishes inter-ministry cooperation on ePhyto certificates
Story and Photos: ePhyto Thailand Project, Agriculture and Food Cluster/GIZ Department of Agriculture, National Bureau of Agricultural Commodity and Food Standards, and Thai Customs Department gear up to promote trade facilitation and close ranks in dealing with the export and import of plants and plant products The use of electronic phytosanitary certificates reflects the commitment …
German Ambassador to Thailand visited SPOPP palm oil mills
Story and Photos: Jantima Kulkit, Agriculture and Food Cluster/GIZ Georg Schmidt, German Ambassador to Thailand, recently visited Palm Panlan Company Limited and farmers from the Sanfan Pela Pattana Settakit Community Enterprise in a southern province of Krabi’s Khlong Thom district. The executives of Palm Panlan Company Limited and Global Green Chemicals Public Company Limited …
Thai Rice NAMA Open House
Story and Photos: Apiradee Treerutkuarkul, Agriculture and Food Cluster/ GIZ Thailand Policymakers and government executives from Germany and Thailand recently visited ThaiRiceNAMA project site in Suphanburi province. Dr Tobias Lindner, Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office, give a book on 160 years of Thai-German relations to Teerayut Chanditthawong, Suphanburi Deputy Provincial Governor. Dr …
Utilising rice straw for smallholder rice farmers
GIZ together with Urmatt Ltd, a social-oriented enterprise in certified organic rice and rice derivative products, join hands for a collaborative project to reduce rice straw burning through innovative use of rice straw with smallholder rice farmers in a northern province of Chiang Rai. Rice straw is a by-product from rice production. Without feasible management …
Knowledge sharing: a sustainable capacity development for Robusta smallholder farmers
Story and Photos: Chollatip Klinsrisuk and Weerinpat Janewatanakul Huai Nai Roi coffee farmer group from La-un District, Ranong province comprises 17 members who are proactive and interested in capacity development as a group. They participated in different activities. However, there is still a lack of group development. Thanks to the Coffee Plus Thailand project, Robusta …
Partnerships and Innovation to Shape ASEAN’s Sustainable Agriculture
Written by: Natasha Angsakulchai and Aidiella Frita, ASEAN AgriTrade Project, Photo: GIZ/Proramatephoto Participants from Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Vietnam and GIZ at the 3rd AIF knowledge exchange event in Bangkok, 13-14 December 2022. 13 – 14 December 2022, Bangkok – Seventy participants from the public and private sectors in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Vietnam …
Thai-German collaboration project show sustainable rice is better for famers, for the climate and for the environment
Story and Photos: Thai-German Climate Programme – Agriculture The results of five years of successful implementation of the Thai-German Climate Programme – Agriculture project or “TGCP-Agriculture” are clear: sustainable rice farming is better for the climate, better for the environment and better for farmers who achieve higher incomes. Rice plays an important role in Thailand. …