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Food security 'needs unity'
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 08/10/2025
» Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn stressed the need for collaboration across borders, sectors, and communities to achieve food security, sustainability, and resilience, at an event marking the 80th anniversary of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the 2025 regional observance of World Food Day on Oct 16.
GE tech investment to give cash crops a boost
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 04/01/2025
» The Agriculture Department is planning to invest in genome editing (GE) technology for economic crops, including rice, palm and sugar cane, as an effort to make Thailand a regional GE seed hub, according to Director-General Rapeepat Chantarasriwong.
UN notes Mekong region's 'agricultural potential'
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 26/05/2023
» The Lower Mekong Region has a high potential to transform from a hotbed of illegal logging and forest crimes to a hub of sustainable forestry and trade, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations.
Princess Sirindhorn donates 1,000 soil test kits
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 05/12/2021
» Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn has provided 1,000 sets of soil test kits to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to help prevent soil salinisation and boost productivity in the region, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives.
Minister makes food hygiene pledge
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 09/09/2020
» Thailand will boost its food security and hygiene in order to prevent the transmission of Covid-19, agricultural minister Chalermchai Sri-on told the 35th Session of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Asia and Pacific Regional Conference.
IUU fishing is a crime issue, says Prawit
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 06/06/2019
» Deputy Prime Minister Gen Prawit Wongsuwon on Wednesday called on the United Nations to make Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing an environmental crime.
Greener rice
Asia focus, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 11/02/2019
» Drive northwest of Siem Reap for about 90 minutes and you will arrive at a large grassland conservation site in Kampong Thom province that is a paradise for bird lovers, who can see as many as 100 bird species there. Villages near the Northern Tonle Sap Protected Landscape benefit from birdwatching tourism organised by non-governmental organisations, which share some of their income with the communities to be used for conservation.
An unloved conservation cause
Spectrum, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 29/04/2018
» The threat posed to the world's declining shark population is underlined by the startling figure that 73 million sharks are killed each year for fin shark soup, according to the US-based international agency against then illegal wildlife trade, WildAid.