Thai Shrimp Farmers Turn To Biotech Farming
THAILAND - Biotechnological farming is seen as a key to salvaging the THB70bn industry that has been hit hard over the past two years by contaminants in shipments and anti-dumping duties

Fishery resources in Asia, Pacific declining: FAO
THAILAND - Fishery resources in Asia and the Pacific region was declining fast with more small fish with low market value being captured, the United States Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned on Friday.

Migrant's big dream built on sorting shrimps
THAILAND - Molwi arrives at work at 5 a.m., when the sun is just rising over the Gulf of Thailand, and she squats until late afternoon, ankle-deep in a rancid soup of brine and mangled shrimp. The smell is suffocating. Her hands are a blur in big yellow...

Thailand Shrimp Industry Awaits Tariff Blow
THAILAND - The Thai government has been urged to accelerate measures aimed at helping local shrimp farmers maintain cost competitiveness ahead of the imminent imposition of US anti-dumping duties on Thai shrimp.

Thai Poultry/Catfish Farmers In New Dilemma
THAILAND - Thailand's poultry farmers affected by last December's outbreak of bird flu are now facing another obstacle. Chicken breeders in Chainat province have refused to distribute hens to small-scale poultry farmers who run a mixed poultry-fish...

Upward Trend In Thai White Shrimp Culture
THAILAND - In that year, Thailand's Department of Fisheries temporarily authorised the import of specific pathogen free (SPF) brood stock. Thailand then went on to produce 20,000 tonnes of white shrimp.

CP Foods Consider Expansion In Eastern Europe, Africa
THAILAND - Charoen Pokphand Foods Plc says it plans to broaden investments in the poultry and aquaculture business to Eastern Europe and Africa to offset risks from rising import barriers from its trade partners.