Agricultural systems in Thailand: opportunities or Threat for Thai farmers
2007
Pitiyont, V., Laboratory Center for Food and Agricultural Products Co., Ltd., Ladyao, Jatujak, Bangkok, 10900 (Thailand) | Pitiyont, B., Kasetsart Univ., P.O. Box 1072, Kasetsart 10903 (Thailand). Dept. of Environmental Science
The global changes of agricultural production systems due to safety measures have impacted directly to the exported countries. In Thailand, several primary production systems have been introduced, implemented and enforce in different commodities under the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives. Good Agricultural Practices(GAP) in different names has been adopted such as Good Agricultural Practices for plant commodities, Good Animal Practices for livestock and Good Aquaculture for fisheries.Since the Implement of these systems in 2000, the target number of farms have been set up and certified according to the authorized certification system. However, upon the requirements of international system for accreditation and certification rather than official authorization are needed. The National Bureau of Agricultural commodities and Food Standard (ACFS)who responded in this issue must be first accredited under the ISO/IES 17011 and also certified bodies(authorized departments) such as Department of Agriculture, Department of Fisheries and Department of Livestock Development must be certified under ISO/IEC 17021. The other production systems such as GAP(for plants) in different measures such as DoAGAP, ThaiGAP, UrepGAP (GlobalGAP)and AsianGAP where equivalency are required and also Organic Farming(EU, JAS (Japan) and NOP(US) have also been encouraged. These systems give opportunities as well as threat to the farmer in both production and economy where farmers have to decide to adopt by themselves.
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