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  • Where to find organic products and health foods
    Don’t get mixed up between the two. Most Thais get mixed-up between organic and health food. Health food products here in Thailand refer to farm produce grown in the conventional way but with restrictive use of agro-chemicals. Some...
    How and Where to Buy
  • Lao Organic Agriculture
    ประเทศลาว Lao PDR

    Lao PDR is a landlocked country with an area of about 236,800 km2 and a population of 5.859 million (2005 estimate). Around 4% of the land is arable, of which 80% are cultivated with rice, mainly for farmer’s own consumption. Around 70.4% of rice...

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    These are tips learned from real experience of farmers from Green Net and our friends around Thailand and the world.

    Organic Farming Techniques

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  • Chinese Organic Agriculture
    As in many other countries in Asia, Chinese organic agriculture is based on traditional sustainable farming practices that existed thousands of years ago. In China, for example, records of sustainable farming dating back 4,000 years mention several...
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  • Organic Market in Singapore : Present and Trends
    Singapore is an island country, with only 701 square kilometer land but with population of over 4.5 million. Singapore thus has little land for agriculture, currently less than  2,150 ha, or around 3% of the country's land. Almost all foods...
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  • Myanmar Organic Agriculture
    Due to its close-door policies, Myanmar organic agriculture is quite late to develop. A large part of the agriculture within the country are traditional farming with little or no-usages of agrochemicals, thus farmers' practices may be already quite...
    Organic in Asia
  • Lao Organic Agriculture
    Like in many other developing countries, the development of Laos organic agriculture has been promoted by either rural development NGOs and by private sectors interested to gain access to premium markets. Also, the Laos government has been involved...
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  • Learnings From the Thai Floods Regarding Food and Economic Security
    By Michael Commons,  Earth Net Foundation, Thailand, 1 November 2011 The current flooding in Thailand clearly can be credited to a few factors.  One factor is that their was an unusually high amount of rain this year.  The rain also...
    Adaptation in Thailand
  • Thai Organic Statitics
    Green Net has been collecting statistical information about organic agriculture in Thailand since 1998. The information is used by Thai authorities, researchers, and international statistics. We collect, estimate and update certified organic...
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  • Fair Trade Definition, Principles and Green Net
    For Green Net we start primarily from the definitions and principles of fair trade as defined by the World Fair Trade Organization or WFTO.   Below are short forms of the WFTO definition and 10 principles of fair trade.  While there are...
    Fair Trade Principles
  • 9 Reasons to choose to eat organic food
    1. Safe (safer) from agro-chemicals    Organic farming methods do not allow use of any agro-chemicals.  Neither are agro-   chemicals allowed to be used in post-harvest practices and processing.  This means produce and...
    Why Organic
  • History of Thai Organic
    In response to the declining of agriculture due to excessive use of agro-chemicals and economic pressure, a group of farmers and local non-government organizations (NGOs) came together to establish the Alternative Agriculture Network (AAN) around...
    Thai Organic
  • Where to find organic products and health foods
    Don’t get mixed up between the two. Most Thais get mixed-up between organic and health food. Health food products here in Thailand refer to farm produce grown in the conventional way but with restrictive use of agro-chemicals. Some of them may go as...
    How and Where to Buy