CHIANG MAI, 26 March 2018 (NNT) – Local residents in Chiang Mai Province have taken part in the government’s Sustainable Thai Idealism project to develop local farming in Mae Chaem District. Deputy Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Wiwat Salyakamthorn and residents of Mae Chaem took part in the reforestation of encroached forestland and preparations for rice […]
Pig farmers in Vietnam say they are operating at a loss amid falling domestic pork prices caused by China’s decision to cut imports and have called on the government to renegotiate a trade deal with Beijing in a bid to pull their industry out of a tailspin. China stopped buying live pigs from Vietnam in […]
In Thai schoolbooks, farmers are called the “backbone” of the agriculture-oriented country. But that backbone is under stress. In the rice sector alone, farmers have long encountered uncertainties caused by competition in the world market, impacts from drought or floods, and, for many, long-term debt. “I sold rice at 5,900 baht ($168.60) per ton in […]
BANGKOK, 16 November 2016 (NNT) – More rice-selling campaigns have been introduced across the country to help farmers hit hard by falling prices. Farmers living near the Ubol Ratana Dam in Khon Kaen province and in Nong Bua Lam Phu province, on Tuesday brought their Hom Mali and sticky rice crop weighing over 2,000 kilograms […]
BANGKOK, 2 November 2016 (NNT) – The Ministry of Commerce has expressed confidence that the governments assistance for rice farmers will result in increasing rice price, saying that it will urgently help them sell rice domestically and internationally. Permanent Secretary for Commerce Wibunlak Ruamrak said the government’s assistance measures were aimed at distributing rice and […]
Former Democrat MP Warong Detkitpirom urged the government to quickly come to the rescue of rice farmers who are now suffering from sharp drop in rice prices. The whistle-blower who exposed the alleged massive corruption in Yingluck government’s rice pledging scheme suggested the government to pay the rice farmers the difference between the selling rice […]
MORE than 1,000 rai – 160 hectares – previously occupied by the ‘Tiger Temple’ in Kanchanaburi province will be distributed to a farmers’ cooperative. The move reaffirms Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister General Chatchai Sarikalya’s announcement that the poor will benefit – not suffer – from ongoing efforts to reclaim agricultural-reform land from illegitimate occupiers. Full […]
BANGKOK, 9 May 2016 (NNT) – Farmers across the nation have used the auspicious occasion of Royal Ploughing Day to start their crops today. Farmers across Uthai Thani province were seen planting crops early this morning ahead of the Royal Ploughing Ceremony taking place in Bangkok. Read more: NNT National News Bureau of Thailand
