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Saving our soils from the ground up
News, Published on 24/04/2015
» The United Nations has declared 2015 to be the International Year of Soils, and this week marks the Global Soil Week. Such events, though not exactly glamorous, do not receive nearly the amount of attention they deserve.
The cost of producing cheap meat
News, Published on 04/09/2014
» Factory-style livestock production is a critical driver of agricultural industrialisation. Its remorseless expansion is contributing to climate change, deforestation, biodiversity loss, and human-rights violations — all to satisfy Western societies' unhealthy appetite for cheap meat.
Postbag: In praise of our one man show
News, Published on 24/08/2014
» It is always interesting to read Kong Rithdee’s opinion column. “Zero is a sign of our brave new world” (Opinion, Aug 23) is another example of Khun Kong’s baffling views. I don’t know how old Khun Kong is, nor would I dare ask, but I’m sure he has been around through a number of different governments to see how they all were ineffective due to personal interests of our representatives, both elected and appointed, how they squabbled and manipulated, how the budgets ran amok, how grandiose populist projects nearly wrecked the Thai economy, how promises were so easily made and as easily never kept, and so forth.
Feb 2 election is not the solution
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 10/01/2014
» For the moment at least, the Feb 2 election is still on. Whether it will be held on schedule, or at all, remains the big question - there are many reasons why it should not.
Populism has no place in agricultural policy
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 10/09/2013
» They are all queuing up one after another _ rice farmers, rubber growers, palm oil planters, tapioca farmers, corn growers, sugar cane planters, and many more _ to pressure the government to shore up prices of their produce.
Feeding the world a complex process
News, Published on 23/07/2013
» In the Mekong Delta, farmers harvest 6-7 tonnes of rice per hectare in dry seasons and 4-5 tonnes per hectare in wet seasons, using fast-maturing rice varieties that allow up to three consecutive yields annually.
Asean's got talent, but where's it going to go?
News, Published on 17/07/2013
» The AEC'S got talent. Indeed. And the talent pool is quite limited.
Government offers dubious excuses for rice price cut
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 24/06/2013
» Here is some simple arithmetic. Suppose you are a miller and you pay a farmer 15,000 baht for a tonne of paddy and, after the grain is milled, you sell the produce at 10,000 baht. Your loss is 5,000 baht, which is simple and straightforward.
Splashed to death
News, Published on 16/04/2012
» Yesterday, I saw two guys on a motorbike approaching one of those small roadside groups armed with hoses, water guns and buckets of water. One of the group with a bucket stepped further into the road to throw the water and the motorbike veered away straight into the path of an oncoming car on the other side of the road. Injured, but thankfully not killed.