Agriculture
Agricultural production
Floods damage over 20,000 rai of farmlands this year
The Agriculture and Cooperatives Ministry announced on Thursday that flooding has damaged more than 20,000 rai of agricultural land and that 7 million baht has been spent compensating more than 1,000 farmers.Peeraphan Kothong, the ministry’s deputy spokesman, said according to the report covering damages incurred ...
The Nation Reporter
Making Future Food in Thailand
Thailand’s farm and food industry has been constantly incorporating new innovations in an effort to meet the increasingly sophisticated demands of a global market that is becoming swamped with virtually endless options.Staying ahead of the game in this hugely competitive environment requires access to a ...
BAAC rolls out measures to help clients hit by impact of Covid-19
The Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) will offer a debt moratorium from six months up to a year to clients who are farmers, cooperatives, village funds or agricultural communities which have had debts with the bank as of April 1, 2021, in a ...
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Hard-up farmers to get land
The government has set aside 300,000 rai of land to redistribute to low-income farmers who don’t have their own properties to work on.Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said after chairing yesterday’s meeting of the National Committee on Land Policy that the land would be released to ...
Bangkok Post Reporter
More than Bt8 billion injected in schemes to help farmers: Govt House
The government has spent more than Bt8.3 billion on two farmer aid schemes in a bid to help rice farmers nationwide, the Thai Khu Fah Facebook page said on Thursday.The Thai Khu Fah page is run by Government House.The state allocated Bt3.83 billion to support ...
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Covid-hit businesses get B884m boost
The cabinet on Tuesday gave its approval for 884.62 million baht to be spent to fund 157 economic recovery projects in 57 provinces around the country that have been hit by the Covid-19 pandemic.Deputy government spokeswoman Rachada Dhnadirek said the money would be allotted to ...
Mongkol Bangprapa
Ministry of Labour drives employment with model farming and freelance occupation training to combat the COVID-19 crisis
The Ministry of Labour followed up the progress of participants in “The COVID-19 Resistant Farm Project Model” programme in Ratchaburi. The initiative was launched to promote vocational occupations as a local employment resource so people can earn sustainable income.Deputy Permanent Secretary of Labour Ministry, Mrs. ...
Bangkok Post Reporter
New-wave urban farming
People continue to lose their jobs amid Covid-19, raising concerns about whether farmers and growers in the production chain can still get their supplies to market. Even if they can, the question also arises as to whether hard-up consumers can afford to buy them.To address ...
Bangkok Post Reporter
Farm community becomes healthy, wealthy and wise the organic way
Once a major maize plantation where farmers liberally doused farm chemicals to raise yields and reap as much as profit as they could, Ban Mai Village in Nan province has surprised many and become a role model for non-organic farming.The village at tambon Na Rai ...
Rarinthorn Petcharoen
Call for turning factory waste into fertilisers
Thailand Institute of Scientific and Technological Research (TISTR), under the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation has instructed related agencies and farmers in Kanchanaburi to produce organic fertilisers with filter cake waste from sugar factories in the province, citing Yuamanpong fertiliser factory as ...
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