Thailand launches 5-year plan for ASEAN organic agriculture base

According to reports from Thailand China Daily on March 7, the Ministry of Agricultural Cooperatives of Thailand announced that the five-year organic agriculture development master plan from 2017 to 2021 was over-completed and will be implemented on the basis of the existing 1.5 million Thai mu of organic farms and 90,000 farmers. The next target plan is to become an organic agricultural planting and production base in ASEAN, and strengthen the international competitiveness of Thailand's organic agricultural products.

The next five-year goal of the Thai government is to continue to improve the production and income-generating capacity of organic agriculture in Thailand on the existing basis, and to build Thailand into an organic agricultural planting production base in ASEAN. It will be carried out from the following aspects: 1. Encourage big data research and development and technological innovation; 2. Improve agricultural labor productivity and improve organic agricultural supply chain management; 3. Improve organic agricultural standards and certification systems; 4. Develop marketing to improve organic agriculture know.

In 2022, the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives has allocated a budget of 850 million baht to continue to promote the organic agriculture development plan, with a total of 94 projects, namely, 48 in the research field with a budget of 177 million baht; 21 in the production and management field with a budget of 552 million baht; organic agriculture Standard field 25 budgets of 122 million baht.

1000 Ecological Farms will be built across China By 2025

On December 22, 2021, the Agricultural Ecology and Resource Protection Station of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and the China Agricultural Ecological Environmental Protection Association announced the list of the first batch of ecological farms in the country, and a total of 132 production entities won the title of "ecological farms". After the release of the list, what is an ecological farm and why it is necessary to build an ecological farm has become a hot spot of social concern. Longze Yunong Organic Agriculture (Beijing) Co., Ltd. and other first batch of subjects to obtain the title of ecological farms welcomed a large number of people visiting, studying or visiting during the "two festivals" which coincided with the New Year's Day and the Spring Festival.

One month after the release of the list, at the end of January 2022, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs issued the "Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Construction of Ecological Farms", pointing out that promoting the construction of ecological farms is an important measure to implement Xi Jinping's thought on ecological civilization, and explore effective paths for agricultural modernization. A powerful tool to promote the green development of agriculture. By 2025, through scientific evaluation, follow-up monitoring and guidance services, build 1,000 national-level ecological farms across the country, and drive the construction of 10,000 local ecological farms in various provinces.