"Fruits"

Bangkok, 25 May 2021 - The Trade Competition Commission (TCC) continues to create fairness protecting fruit growers across the country during the harvest season when a wide variety of fruit are exported to market, as well as warning business operators (Lhong) not to do anything that is considered an offense.

Thailand’s fruit export in 2020 grew 13.45 per cent year on year despite the pandemic, Department of International Trade Promotion (DITP) director-general Somdet Susomboon said on Friday.

Thailand’s fruit farmers have been handed a simple and eco-friendly way of protecting their crop and boosting profits: recycled paper. The special wrapping to protect ripening fruits from pests is made by Chonburi’s AP Recycle Industrial company with a grant from the Technology and Innovation-Based Enterprise Development Fund (TED Fund).

A troupe of crab-eating macaques has emerged from Surat Thani's Khun Talay mangrove forest and forged a bond with kind-hearted locals who are feeding them vegetables and fruits.

The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is encouraging people to visit Si Sa Ket province to indulge in the bounty of nature and tuck into delicacies like the famous lava durian.

The Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) has earmarked Bt1 billion as loans to farmers, community enterprises and agricultural cooperatives which wish to sell their produce directly to markets.

A Thailand Fruit Golden Months Festival will be organised in eight cities in China as local governments have started easing lockdown measures.

The Royal Thai Army has become an agricultural customer to help farmers suffering from the Covid-19 situation and the nationwide shutdowns.

The largest market for fresh fruit and vegetables in the North is scheduled to open in Chiang Rai next year. The market, Talat Lan Muang, is also expected to become a centre for the trading of fresh goods with Myanmar and Laos, thanks to the location of Chiang Rai. 

VIETNAM has shown strong growth in fruit and vegetable exports in recent times, but for the sustainable development of exports more support from the state and enterprises is required, experts say.

THE BUSINESS Development Department will begin monitoring more closely three types of business under the Foreign Business Act

JAKARTA - The Agriculture Ministry is aiming to increase the value of Indonesian flower and fruit farming by 120 trillion rupiah (US$9 billion ) by pushing promotion, revitalising plantations and boosting local fruit consumption.