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Low-priced pork campaign to help consumers, farmers
Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 03/10/2025
» The Ministry of Commerce has announced a campaign to ease the cost of living for consumers by selling quality pork at a special price of 100 baht for 2 kilogrammes nationwide throughout October.
Stores urged to keep pork prices stable
Business, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 23/04/2025
» The Department of Internal Trade (DIT) is encouraging retail and wholesale stores to keep pork prices stable, despite recent increases driven by a decline in supply.
Department aims to keep a lid on chicken prices
Business, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 20/06/2024
» The Department of Internal Trade is monitoring chicken exports, urging producers and exporters to balance the proportion between domestic sales and shipments to prevent the price of chicken meat from getting too high.
Weather's impact on farming assessed
Business, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 29/04/2024
» The Department of Internal Trade (DIT) is monitoring the extremely hot weather in the country and assessing its effect on the production of agricultural and livestock products.
Pig production to be reduced amid concerns over low prices
Business, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 05/03/2024
» The Internal Trade Department plans to cooperate with the Department of Livestock Development (DLD) and the Swine Raisers Association of Thailand to reduce pig production to an average of 8,000 piglets per day, helping to stabilise the price for livestock producers nationwide.
Calls for an end to pork smuggling
Business, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 01/09/2022
» Pig farmers are calling on responsible authorities to take serious action to tackle pork smuggling, pointing out that the amount of smuggled pork has increased and could result in severe damage to total domestic pig farming in the fourth quarter.
Ministry vows to tackle surging feed meal prices
Business, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 23/03/2022
» The Commerce Ministry pledges to address feed meal prices, which are surging because of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Commerce Ministry forms price watch teams
Business, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 27/01/2022
» The Commerce Ministry has set up 55 teams to inspect the prices of goods and food throughout Bangkok and surrounding provinces to prevent price gouging and hoarding as prices continue to spike.
Chicken added to price control list
Business, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 20/01/2022
» The Commerce Ministry is putting chickens and chicken meat on the state price control list and rolling out more stringent measures for chicken raisers and slaughterhouses as well as feed meal factories, requiring them to declare their sales costs and stocks as part of efforts to deal with surging food prices.
Ministry sets up war rooms to monitor prices
Business, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 18/01/2022
» The Commerce Ministry on Monday set up war rooms to closely monitor and supervise essential consumer goods and services sectors to curb price gouging nationwide while denying requests from the private sector to raise carbonated drink prices.