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Head of Thailand’s Fertiliser Regulation Group shares his views on bio fertilisers and challenges surrounding its regulation
Writer: Natasha Angsakulchai, Project Assistant, Facilitating Trade for Agricultural Goods in ASEAN (FTAG) Written by Natasha Angsakulchai and Patamasiri Hoonthong, Department of Agriculture Thailand Dr. Suparat Kositcharoenkul, Head of Fertiliser Regulation Group of the Department of Agriculture, shares with us in an interview, his views and experiences that give us insights into the status of …
Life of contract farmer in Cambodia: Growing organic, glowing income
Writer: Saody So and Rojana Manowalailao, ASEAN Sustainable Agrifood Systems Teams Since Ms. Ing Sarun grows organic vegetables for Khmer Organic Cooperative, she smiles more often. Ms. Sarun, 58, grows rice and vegetables on her family’s land of 0.92 hectare in Kampong Nung Village in Kampot Province, Cambodia. She cultivates rice and grows vegetables such …
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FIA Video: The State of Food Security in Asia
Mr Richard Skinner, Strategy Leader, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Singapore, speaks with Food Industry Asia (FIA) about what food security looks like across Asia, and touches on the importance of transparency and effective regulation in tackling food fraud. Mr Richard Skinner, Strategy Leader, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Singapore, was a panellist during the Food Industry Asia (FIA) Lunch Series …
Thailand’s Draft Pesticide Safety Act: Progress and development
Writer: Santikorn Pakdeesettakul, Project Coordinator, Thai Rice (Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action) NAMA Nowadays, agricultural production widely and heavily relies on chemical pesticide application. The misuses of chemical pesticides by farmers, the failure to enforce policies and laws, and the promotion of chemical products have caused serious adverse impacts on farmers and consumers health, ecosystem, and …
“60 Years: Thai-German Partnership for Sustainable Development” to be celebrated in Bangkok on 18 January 2017
Thailand International Cooperation Agency (TICA) and GIZ Thailand are organizing the “60 Years: Thai-German Partnership for Sustainable Development” event. This will be held on 18 January 2017 at 08.45 a.m.-12.30 p.m. at Vithes Samosorn, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This event is aimed at disseminating the implementation of Thai-German development cooperation during the past 60 …
Government officers, farmers and traders get trained to become black pepper masters
Writer: ASEAN Sustainable AgriFood Systems Vietnam team Training of trainers on integrated crop management for sustainable pepper production in Viet Nam Forty participants including technical staffs of Sub-Plant Protection Department, farmer leaders and traders from Ba Ria – Vung Tau (BRVT) province in Viet Nam recently attended a five-day Training of Trainers (ToT) on “Application …
G7 InsuResilience to benefit the vulnerable for climate risk insurance
Writer: Benedikt Lemnitzer, Remote Sensing-based Information, and Insurance for Crops in Emerging Economies (RIICE) RIICE will contribute to reach the goal of the InsuResilience initiative to increase numbers of insured against climate risks At the UN world climate conference in Marrakesh, Morocco the German Parliamentary State Secretary Thomas Silberhorn, representing the German Federal Ministry for …
AEC News, 27 September 2016: GIZ Programme to Boost Cambodia’s Organic Produce Sector
Fear of the adverse effects of chemically tainted food is seeing an increasing number of Cambodian people choose organic produce, despite its higher prices. The trend mimics that in major international markets such as the UK and US, as well as in Cambodia’s major trading partner China, which is now the world’s fourth largest market …