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Enhancing Thai palm oil production to meet global sustainability demands
Story and Photos: Sustainable and Climate-Friendly Palm Oil Production and Procurement (SCPOPP) project, Agriculture and Food Cluster Thai policymakers and business actors came together for the Second Business Forum, jointly organised by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and the German Organisation for International Cooperation (GIZ), to discuss the vital role Thailand can play …
Personal Data Protection in the Agriculture Sector
Chotika Thamsuwan and Patcharin Sae-heng, Agriculture and Food Cluster Data privacy has become one of the topics that receive much attention nowadays in all sectors including the agriculture sector. Due to impacts of digitalisation which lead to the evolution of social media and the advanced use of big data, individuals become to have less control …
Thai Rice NAMA introduces financial packages to support farmers’ access to climate-smart rice farming
Agriculture and Food Cluster The Thai Rice Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions or Thai Rice NAMA project under the Rice Department, the Bank of Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is stepping forward to provide financial support packages to farmers and agripreneurs to access land preparation, laser land levelling …
Thailand Marks Key Milestone in Streamlining Agricultural Exports
Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation Building on the significant steps already taken in ambitious government digitalisation efforts, agricultural exporters can now apply for phytosanitary certificates online, saving time and money by no longer having to make in-person applications. Exporters of plants or plant products require phytosanitary certificates to show that their goods are free from …
The first group of Thai female farmers named SRP authorised trainers
Story: Apiradee Treerutkuarkul Photos: Srijakpat Chalermchai, Agriculture and Food Cluster A group of three female farmers from northeastern Thailand are certified as authorised trainers by the Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP), the global multi-stakeholder alliance, to progress resource-use efficiency and climate change resilience in rice systems. Hans-Ulrich Suedbeck, Deputy Head of Mission and Head of Economic …
Thai Rice NAMA introduces the Half-Half co-payment scheme to provide farmers, agripreneurs financial support on climate-smart rice farming
Pichayanan Prompichayanon, Agriculture and Food Cluster Thai Rice NAMA officially introduced the Half-Half co-payment scheme to provide farmers and agripreneurs with financial support for land preparation and laser land levelling (LLL) services that are essential to implementing climate-smart rice farming. Natthakit Khongthip, Director-General of the Rice Department in his capacity as committee member and secretary …
Coffee+ Thailand goes online to improve capacity building and knowledge sharing
Apiradee Treerutkuarkul, Agriculture and Food Cluster The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has continued to affect offline business and activities at all levels. To comply with the disease control measures and in conjunction with the Faculty of Economics, Prince of Songkhla University, the Improving Smallholder Coffee Farming Systems in Southeast Asia (Coffee+) project recently hosted an online …
MRV Knowledge Transfer Tools for Thai Rice Sector
Story: Chotika Thamsuwan and Patcharin Sae-heng, Agriculture and Food Cluster Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) join hands with Rice Department and International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) launched a knowledge management and learning materials to develop skills necessary for fulfilling the so-called “Measurable, Reportable and Verifiable” system framework (MRV). Comprising handbook, printing products and a …
Scaling up innovative, inclusive insurance in agricultural value chains to build climate resilience in ASEAN
Story: Apiradee Treerutkuarkull, Agriculture and Food Cluster Southeast Asia urgently needs innovation and strong network collaboration among public and private sectors to effectively manage increasing agricultural risk associated with climate change, experts say. Agricultural and financial experts and representatives from related public and private sectors in Asean discussed how finance, innovations and technology can play …