Thammanat urging rice farmers to give up 3-harvests-a-year farming
By Thai Newsroom Reporters AGRICULTURE & COOPERATIVES MINISTER Thammanat Prompao said today (Jan.3) rice farmers are being encouraged to give up their three-harvests-a-year occupation and grow another cash crop as an alternative. During the first day of floor debate on the 2024 budget bill, the agriculture minister confirmed that the Agricultural Extension Department plans […]
Read MoreRice farmers to get 1,000 baht subsidy per rai
By Thai Newsroom Reporters RICE FARMERS IN ALL parts of the country will be given 1,000 baht in government subsidy for each rai of their crop within a one-month period from now. The cabinet today (Nov.14) approved the Pheu Thai-led government’s measure to grant 1,000 baht in subsidy per rai of rice farm to […]
Read MoreFarmers told to sell rice to cooperatives for better profit
By Thai Newsroom Reporters AGRICULTURE MINISTER THAMMANAT Prompao today (Nov.7) encouraged farmers to only sell Hom Mali fragrant rice to local agricultural cooperatives in lieu of private millers to get a higher profit. Given a combined 10 billion baht funding from the government, a total of 480 agricultural cooperatives nationwide are offering to buy […]
Read More2.69 million farmers given one-year debt moratorium
By Thai Newsroom Reporters OVER 2.69 MILLION FARMERS currently indebted to the Bank for Agriculture & Agricultural Cooperatives have been granted a one-year moratorium, according to government spokesman Chai Wacharong. The cabinet today (Sep.26) approved the government’s measure to grant the one-year moratorium effective between Oct. 1, 2023 and Sep. 30, 2024 for more […]
Read MoreFarmers guarding durian orchards day and night after big price hike
DURIAN farmers in Tak province just across the border from Myanmar are guarding their orchards day and night to keep thieves at bay after a big price rise this year, Matichon newspaper said today (May 18). Mr. Chub Buasom, or Uncle Chub, a farmer in Ruam Thai Phatthana subdistrict, Phop Phra district, said previously […]
Read MoreIn hard times, queen of the fruits turns into mangosteen jam
By Thai Newsroom Reporters MANGOSTEEN JAM IS BEING industriously manufactured in an eastern district of Chanthaburi albeit not in high demand. The more the queen of the fruits is processed, the less it is thrown away as a rotten, unsold farm produce, simple as that. Farmer Boonsong Srisantanakit has recruited relatives and neighbours in Khao […]
Read MoreRetailers bound to meet halfway, literally
By Thai Newsroom Reporters FARMERS HARVESTING CASH CROPS in eastern provinces of Chanthaburi, Rayong and Trat have called on fruit retailers in the northeastern, northern and central regions to literally meet them half way under the sustained pandemic situation. Dozens of farmers growing and harvesting durian, mangosteen, rambutan and longkong in those eastern provinces have […]
Read MoreCall to ban import of low-priced shrimp from Ecuador
THE Thai Marine Shrimp Farmers Association today (June 20) urged the Department of Fisheries to ban the import of low-priced shrimps from Ecuador which is now affecting Thai shrimp farmers, Sanook.com said this afternoon (June 20). Mr. Somchai Rerkpokee, the association’s president, said he has heard foreign shrimp are being sold to local consumers […]
Read MoreSouthern pineapple to go online or go rotten
By Thai Newsroom Reporters AN ESTIMATED 30 TONNES of pineapple are currently harvested and literally put on roadside sales amidst fears that the fruit might go nowhere from a southern district of Chumphon unless it is all for trading online in the face of the current pandemic situation. Most pineapple grown by farmers in a […]
Read MoreIndian farmers block highways nationwide
(New Delhi) Tens of thousands of protesting Indian farmers have blocked highways across the country in defiance of the government’s internet and phone blackout, facing off against a heavy security deployment stationed behind rows of razor wire and concrete blocks. They’re demanding a repeal of laws pushed through parliament last year by the government of […]
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