Agricultural policy and administration

The mobile cabinet on Monday greenlighted incentives worth 8 billion baht for sugarcane farmers who agree to cut fresh sugarcane without burning the residue, a move aimed at helping reduce the amount of PM2.5 dust in the 2022/23 harvest year. According to Rudklao Suwankiri, the government’s ...

The Commerce Ministry pledges to handle agricultural production and price management, especially for cassava and palm oil, as the income guarantee scheme for these crops was not extended, awaiting the new government’s policy. Udom Srisomsong, deputy director-general of the Internal Trade Department, said the agency has ...

A scheme worth 7.6 billion THB (215 million USD) has been approved by the cabinet of Thailand to guarantee rubber prices for 1.6 million farmers registered with the country’s Rubber Authority.The move, the fourth phase of an ongoing programme, promises a 40-60 split on revenues ...

Plant breeders want Thailand to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) and suggested that the government fund research.The chief of Plant Variety Protection Office, Thidakoon Saenudom, said in a seminar on the CPTPP that Thailand would take three – five years ...

The state-owned Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) is poised to revise its new lending target of 101 billion baht for this financial year, starting from April 1, because of knock-on effects from the Covid-19 outbreak on the farming sector.BAAC’s operating performance for the ...

Deputy Prime Minister Jurin Laksanawisit has ordered the Office of the Farmers Rehabilitation and Development Fund to study debt restructuring of 46,000 farmers with a debt of Bt15 billion, deputy spokeswoman Ratchada Thanadirek said after a meeting of the Farmers Rehabilitation and Development Fund Committee ...

Among the seven Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives’ initiatives set for 2020 are measures to do with water management to avoid drought and caring for farmers and fishermen.Keep watching ...

The stage is set for practical risk management for grassroots farmers, who chance natural disasters ruining crops every year, through a micro-insurance policy for rice harvests, a flagship Thai commodity.A crop insurance project in Thailand was launched in 2011 via integration of a public-private partnership, ...

With traditional farming in Thailand being disrupted with frequent natural disasters and the issue of lack of value of goods, millions of farmers are facing bankruptcy. To mitigate the situation, the government is implementing a new strategy to secure agricultural production. Panod Srisinsuphya has the ...

The rice price guarantee scheme will begin next month with farmers set to be paid the difference when the price falls below a predetermined benchmark, Deputy Prime Minister and Commerce Minister Jurin Laksanawisit said.He was speaking as he led a delegation of officials from the ...