"Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives"

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.

Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives reported on Sunday that over 5.33 million rai of agricultural areas several regions of Thailand have been affected by floods from September 1 to October 15.

Chiang Mai farmers have been handed 100,000 green chiretta (Fah Talai Jone) seedlings under a government project to boost production of the anti-Covid herb.

The Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Capt Thammanat Prompao, will next week give policy guidance to four organisations in a bid to find ways to ease problems associated with the drought as well as promote greater productivity and income for farmers.

DEPUTY PRIME Minister Somkid Jatusripitak yesterday held discussions with officials from a range of agriculture-related agencies in a bid to set the direction for policies aimed at improving farmers’ livelihoods.