Agriculture and fishing
Commerce Ministry seeks B6bn to bolster recovery
The Commerce Ministry is seeking more than 6 billion baht to fund various projects aimed primarily at helping farmers increase sales by improving their product distribution channels, a source at the ministry said.Funding for the programmes will be taken out of the 400-billion-baht budget that ...
Phusadee Arunmas
Group threatens rally over fishing quotas
A group of trawler owners yesterday vowed to stage a big rally in Bangkok if the Department of Fisheries is adamant on imposing new fishing quotas, a move to appease the European Union after it called on the kingdom to follow sustainable measures in the ...
Apinya Wipatayotin
Private sector protests start of chlorpyrifos, paraquat ban
The Thai Chamber of Commerce will present its study on the economic cost of banning chlorpyrifos and paraquat to the prime minister, in a bid to have the ban suspended for a year.Chamber chairman Kalin Sarasin said a letter explaining the effects of Industry Ministry’s ...
The Nation Reporter
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
Fishers turn to technology to make ends meet
Unlike the thousands made jobless and hungry by the Covid-19 crisis, many families who rely on traditional fishing methods for a living in coastal provinces still manage to put some food on their tables.However, the pandemic has hit their pockets hard. They can no longer ...
Bangkok Post Reporter
Effort on IUU sees ships get sea room
The Department of Fisheries has a plan to allow the first batch of at least 20 trawlers to catch fish outside the country’s sovereign territorial waters by next year after a “yellow card” from the European Union (EU) over Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing (IUU) ...
Apinya Wipatayotin
Blockchain eyed for palm oil
The Energy Ministry has ordered the Energy Business Department to discuss with Thai oil traders the prospect of using blockchain to facilitate palm oil trade.A blockchain system would cut out the middleman between palm planters and palm oil mills, in theory allowing planters to sell ...
Lamonphet Apisitniran
Fishing Boats Seek 50,000 Workers as Virus Spurs Migrants to Leave
Despite adverse effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, Thailand’s fishing industry is currently looking to hire as many as 50,000 men to go out to sea aboard trawlers, said a senior government official on Saturday.Phithoon Damsakhon, chief of the Department of Employment’s provincial branch of Ranong ...
Superbugs in livestock might kill more than the Covid-19, alerts NGO
The world is in the middle of one of the worst pandemics of the last decades, and the international NGO Sinergia Animal alerts that animal production and consumption may yet be behind many other cases of large-scale disease outbreaks in the near future.“COVID-19 has caused, ...
Ruksina Supatnuntakul
