The Government is pushing for the promotion of Thai organic agricultural products and is also prepared to expand Thailand’s organic export markets in ASEAN, when it becomes a single community in 2015.
Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has expressed strong support for cultural tourism in the Andaman Sea and for southern products under the “One Tambon, One Product (OTOP)” program.
The Governor of the Bank of Thailand, Prasarn Trairatvorakul, has cited higher oil prices as a cause of higher inflation. However, inflation is now still manageable.
The haze situation in northern Thailand is improving. Even so, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has told governors of nine haze-hit provinces not to be complacent but to arrange surveillance units to deal with the problem.
Thailand’s international agriculture strategies for 2012-2016 focus on creating confidence in Thai agricultural products and food in order to strengthen the country’s farm sector on a sustainable basis.
The Royal Institute of Thailand will organize an international conference, which will highlight the Sufficiency Economy approach as a way of improving the people’s quality of life and tackling various problems in a holistic manner.
Provincial governors in the North have been instructed to be stricter about law enforcement in order to bring forest fires and haze pollution fully under control.
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