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Nov 1, 2008

Thailand Ministry of Agriculture to promote Indo-Chinese rubber into the Northeast Center

August 19 reported that the Thai Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Thira Assistant guess that the rubber is the main cash crop in Thailand, each year will be more than 300,000,000,000 baht revenue. North-East have 2,100,000-les-rubber plantation land, currently tapping the supply of juice of a forest Levin 60-70 million and is expected to 7 years later, the north-east of the land area of rubber cultivation will increase to 3,000,000 Levin, in order to achieve this goal The Ministry of Agriculture as soon as possible with accurate knowledge to the farmers in order to promote the development of the north-eastern region of Indochina into a rubber plantation, and cooperation with other countries to promote the production of rubber.

Guess Thira said that agricultural science and technology in the Office of Nong Khai laboratory experimental planting of palm oil, if test results are satisfactory, will promote the cultivation of farmers.

At present, the cultivation of palm oil in the Northeast has 60,000 Levin, the Ministry of Agriculture has not issued a clear policy support.

In addition, palm oil farmers have planted 2-3 years, the Ministry of Agriculture released a low interest rate loans are about 2.5 billion baht, farmers in the agricultural cooperatives and banks to apply for loans.

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