Agricultural commodities, processing and products

Deputy Prime Minister Jurin Laksanawisit said this week the Commerce Ministry he runs and the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives had discussed creating Big Data centres to manage supply and demand in agricultural products at the national, provincial and regional levels.“My ministry has assigned the ...

The Thai government has asked farmers in 22 provinces to not grow off-season rice, as the country braced for a dry spell amid low water levels in main reservoirs.Thailand, the world’s second-largest rice exporter after India, will not have enough water to grow the crop ...

Rice exporters have thrown their full support behind the ban on three toxic farm chemicals, saying importer countries have tightened their order of crops based on food safety.Charoen Laothamatas, president of the Thai Rice Exporters Association, said the group agrees with the government’s decision to ...

Alternating drought conditions and flooding in northeastern Thailand are expected to cut paddy production in the region in the 2019-20 crop year by 488,000 tonnes.According to the latest report by the provincial extension offices in 20 provinces of the Northeast, paddy production from the 2019-20 ...

A Kasetsart University academic has suggested several ways the Thai rubber industry could counter its current difficulties, including the use of studies by Thailand Science Research and Innovation.“The government has to make this an urgent matter on the national agenda to improve the whole system ...

The Commerce Ministry will push three policies to resolve the low prices of five agricultural goods, increase exports across borders and register geographical indication products for sale on e-commerce markets, Deputy Commerce Minister Sansern Samalapa said on Tuesday.Keep reading ...

Sticky rice have been  smuggled into the country, but ironically it has helped curb soaring price, said Chukiat Opaswong, honorary president of the Thai Rice Exporters Association.Some merchants, he said, had smuggled 100,000 tonnes of glutinous rice into the country  from Vietnam via Thailand’s neighboring ...

The Commerce Ministry has made oil palm and rubber the top priority farm products for the new government to tackle under the income guarantee scheme.Whichai Phochanakij, director-general of Internal Trade Department, said it is preparing data and guidelines for the income guarantee scheme for five ...

The annual survey of vegetables and fruits by the Thailand Pesticide Alert Network (ThaiPAN) found high toxic contamination on 41% of sampled vegetables and fruits, and the problem was bigger at retail stores than wet markets.Keep reading ...

An oversupply of fresh palm nuts has prompted authorities to boost prices by marking up the price of cooking palm oil, much to the dismay of retailers.While such a move could boost palm nut prices, it could also impact food prices and the cost of ...