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German Ambassador to Thailand visited SPOPP palm oil mills
Story and Photos: Jantima Kulkit, Agriculture and Food Cluster/GIZ Georg Schmidt, German Ambassador to Thailand, recently visited Palm Panlan Company Limited and farmers from the Sanfan Pela Pattana Settakit Community Enterprise in a southern province of Krabi’s Khlong Thom district. The executives of Palm Panlan Company Limited and Global Green Chemicals Public Company Limited …
Thai Rice NAMA Open House
Story and Photos: Apiradee Treerutkuarkul, Agriculture and Food Cluster/ GIZ Thailand Policymakers and government executives from Germany and Thailand recently visited ThaiRiceNAMA project site in Suphanburi province. Dr Tobias Lindner, Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office, give a book on 160 years of Thai-German relations to Teerayut Chanditthawong, Suphanburi Deputy Provincial Governor. Dr …
Utilising rice straw for smallholder rice farmers
GIZ together with Urmatt Ltd, a social-oriented enterprise in certified organic rice and rice derivative products, join hands for a collaborative project to reduce rice straw burning through innovative use of rice straw with smallholder rice farmers in a northern province of Chiang Rai. Rice straw is a by-product from rice production. Without feasible management …
Knowledge sharing: a sustainable capacity development for Robusta smallholder farmers
Story and Photos: Chollatip Klinsrisuk and Weerinpat Janewatanakul Huai Nai Roi coffee farmer group from La-un District, Ranong province comprises 17 members who are proactive and interested in capacity development as a group. They participated in different activities. However, there is still a lack of group development. Thanks to the Coffee Plus Thailand project, Robusta …
Partnerships and Innovation to Shape ASEAN’s Sustainable Agriculture
Written by: Natasha Angsakulchai and Aidiella Frita, ASEAN AgriTrade Project, Photo: GIZ/Proramatephoto Participants from Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Vietnam and GIZ at the 3rd AIF knowledge exchange event in Bangkok, 13-14 December 2022. 13 – 14 December 2022, Bangkok – Seventy participants from the public and private sectors in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Vietnam …
Thai-German collaboration project show sustainable rice is better for famers, for the climate and for the environment
Story and Photos: Thai-German Climate Programme – Agriculture The results of five years of successful implementation of the Thai-German Climate Programme – Agriculture project or “TGCP-Agriculture” are clear: sustainable rice farming is better for the climate, better for the environment and better for farmers who achieve higher incomes. Rice plays an important role in Thailand. …
Five female leading farmers’ thoughts on sustainable palm oil production
Story: Sustainable and Climate-Friendly Palm Oil Production and Procurement in Thailand Project It is undeniable that discussions over women’s roles have picked up steam in recent years. The Sustainable and Climate-Friendly Palm Oil Production and Procurement in Thailand (SCPOPP) project is a part of a larger initiative to develop methods for producing palm oil without …
Sustainability is promising when your partners buy in!
Story: Wannipa Soda, Government Liaison and Coffee Productivity Manager, Coffee+ Project Thailand The measures, knowledge and tools developed and implemented by the Coffee+ project have been sustained by enabling partners and farmers from various government and non-government sectors to deliver the mutual goal. The mechanisms include institutionalization, collaboration, and capacity development. Improving smallholder coffee farming …
Paving the way towards sustainable financial mechanism, climate resilient rice farming in Thailand
Story: Metta Kongphan-apirak, Agri-Climate Risk Financing Project Manager, Agriculture and Food Cluster Financial experts from the Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) and the Thai Credit Guarantee Corporation (TCG) met with a proposal development team at Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ) during a recent workshop aimed at brainstorming feasibility and way forward …