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Customs urged to act on sticky rice smugglers
The Internal Trade Department is urging border security and customs officers to crack down on the smuggling of unmilled glutinous rice by traders who want to profit off the high price of the commodity in the domestic market. Keep reading ...
Phusadee Arunmas
Tree crops development in ASEAN
Permanent crops are mainly trees (e.g., coffee, cacao, rubber) but they also include palms (e.g., coconut, oil palm) and vines (e.g., pepper) (www.fao.org). They are planted and possess long economic life. By contrast, temporary or annual crops are sown and harvested during the same agricultural ...
Campaign launched to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from rice farming
The Minister said the Thai Rice NAMA project will reach out to 100,000 rice farming households in Thailand in shifting from conventional to low-emission farming in the country.The project will work with farmers and farmers’ associations as well as external service providers in adapting these ...
Rice Policy & Management Committee - 34 million tons of rice to be released this year
The Rice Policy and Management Committee announces rice stock release plans and expects over 34 million tons of rice throughout this year.The Rice Policy and Management Committee yesterday approved the project to provide over 180 million baht in funding to help farmers with rice harvests ...
Tewit Kemtong
Commerce Ministry tackles oil palm pricing
The Ministry of Commerce has stressed the government’s efforts to solve low pricing of oil palm kernels, bringing forward measures over the next two months to bring down the stock volume to a normal level.Keep watching ...
Industry Ministry plans end to sugarcane burning in three years
The Ministry of Industry will propose to the Cabinet a plan to end within three years sugarcane farmers’ widespread practice of cane burning before harvesting which is largely blamed for smog problem in many areas.The plan will be incorporated into a ministerial regulation to be ...
Farm prices increase for first time in 22 months
The farm price index rose for the first time in 22 months in February, largely because of an increase in paddy price and a smaller decline in rubber prices, says the Fiscal Policy Office (FPO). Keep reading ...
Wichit Chantanusornsiri
ANALYSIS: Farmers’ rights must be priority in next try at rice bill
Following growing pressure over its intention to help farmers, the National Legislative Assembly (NLA) this past week decided to amend the bill one last time in an attempt to reach compromise. But still, the bill’s content was tied up with complicated plant varieties and plant ...
Piyaporn Wongruang
Newton Fund's Sustainable Rice Initiative
Last week, Thailand’s National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) and the UK’s Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), hosted a workshop in Bangkok on sustainable rice production.Keep reading ...
EXCLUSIVE: What went wrong with THE RICE BILL?
Legislation set for final reading coming week appears to have been gutted of measures to improve production and reward farmers for their hard work and wisdom.Everyone involved agrees that the rice bill – Thailand’s first legislation aimed at guiding holistic management of production – began ...
Piyaporn Wongruang
