"Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives"

Thailand exported 1.01 million tonnes of livestock products valued at 106.65 billion baht in the first five months of the year, an increase of 2.08 per cent and 20.82 per cent year on year respectively, thanks to the improving Covid-19 situation globally that has helped increase the demand for food ingredients.

The Agriculture and Cooperatives Ministry on Friday began giving away free cannabis plants to people who have registered online with the Agriculture Department.

The Thai pavilion at the Netherlands ’ international horticultural exposition “Floriade Expo 2022” was opened by officials from the Agriculture and Cooperatives Ministry on Thursday.

Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Chalermchai Sreeon ordered the Department of Livestock Development to work with the Veterinary Research and Development Centre to help farmers in Phatthalung’s Thalay Noi subdistrict look after their buffalo suffering from food shortage.

The Agriculture and Cooperatives Ministry wants the fraud case involving the ministry’s savings cooperative to be made a special one so an in-depth investigation can be carried out, Deputy Agriculture Minister Mananya Thaiset said on Wednesday after chairing a meeting.

Minister of Agriculture and Cooperatives Chalermchai Sri-on has recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Brazil’s Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply regarding agricultural cooperation between both countries.

Saudi Arabia has lifted the ban on Thai poultry meat and related products after 17 years, Thailand's Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives said on Monday.

The Agriculture and Cooperatives Ministry launched a “rainmaking” project on Thursday in a bid to ease the scarcity of water across the country.

The Laos-China railway will offer Thailand more opportunities and help Chumphon become an export hub very soon, Alongkorn Ponlaboot, adviser to the minister of agriculture and cooperatives, said on Sunday.

A shipment of 500 tones of broken sticky rice will leave Thailand for Chongqing in China on Wednesday via the new Laos-China railway system, Alongkorn Polabutr, adviser to the agriculture and cooperatives minister, said on Saturday.

Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Chalermchai Sri-on said on Wednesday that he had ordered the Department of Livestock Development to immediately investigate risky areas after a sample collected from a slaughterhouse in Nakhon Pathom was found to have a trace of African Swine Fever (ASF) earlier this week.

Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives is planning to connect the Northern railway with China’s Yuxi–Mohan railway to expand trade routes to China, Asia and Europe.