Thailand's Minister of Commerce negotiates fruit management plan for 2022

 

Formulate 17 positive measures, including: 1) Speeding up GAP inspection and certification, the goal in 2022 is not less than 120,000 orchards; 2) Helping companies, farmers, and fruit purchase agents to export about 80,000 tons of fruit to the place of production 3) A subsidy of 3 baht per kilogram will be given to other regions; 3) To help exporters solve the 3% interest on working capital loans, a subsidy of 5 baht per kilogram of 60,000 tons of exported fruits will be given; 4) The Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives encourage the use Agricultural Convention Law, sign fruit futures contracts, support futures contracts, let farmers know how many fruits can be sold, and legally guaranteed purchase contracts are not less than 30,000 tons; 5) Promote national fruit consumption, communicate and coordinate with major airlines, Provide free consignment of 25 kilograms of fruit from April 2022; 6) Help provide 300,000 boxes of fruit, and directly purchase fruit from fruit farmers or cooperatives to provide free transportation.
In 2022, support 15,000 tons of fruit; 7) Last month, we supported fruit vendors and mobile vendors to wholesale fruits during the period when the fruits were in large quantities, and then sold them directly to consumers.
In 2022, 15,000 tons will be supported; 8) Communicate and coordinate with local department stores and gas stations to open up fruit distribution centers , Increasing from 1,500 tons in 2021 to 5,000 tons in 2022; 9) Promote fruit exports, and hold Thai Fruit Golden Month promotion activities in 12 markets in China; 10) Online fruit trade negotiation activities, focusing on new markets such as India and Russia; 11) Hold the THAIFEX-Anuga Asia trade fair in May 2022 to promote Thai fruits internationally; 12) Print Thai fruit promotion media in 5 languages; 13) Provide online transactions for farmers and farmers’ groups, and sell fruits directly to consumers, Fruit export knowledge training, the goal is to train at least 1,000 people; 14) Request the government of the relevant provinces to participate in the labor movement to participate in fruit picking to support; 15) During certain periods of labor shortage, the domestic security unit deploys officers and soldiers to help picking And transport fruits; 16) The Ministry of Commerce requires sales and overseas sales personnel of various provinces to actively coordinate and develop domestic and foreign markets; 17) The Ministry of Commerce and the Commerce Bureau of various provinces strictly enforce the law so that farmers can sell high-quality and well-priced fruits, and avoid the transaction process at a disadvantage, including goods and services prices regulations, business competition law, and so on Weights and Measures Act
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In addition, there is a special measure to accelerate the value-added of other crops such as vegetables and fruits to become high-value-added agricultural products, and to achieve the purpose of value-added by promoting the registration of geographical indications (GI)
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