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Today Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn presented FAO awards to four Asian farmers from Malaysia, Mongolia, Sri Lanka and Thailand for their outstanding achievements in agriculture and food production. Model farmer and frozen food producer from Malaysia, Misripah Marjan When Misripah Marjan finished secondary school in Selangor, Malaysia, she longed to go to university. But her farmer parents did not have the money to send her. Misripah may have lacked...

Today Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn presented FAO awards to four Asian farmers from Malaysia, Mongolia, Sri Lanka and Thailand for their outstanding achievements in agriculture and food production. A model poultry farmer from Mongolia, Mr Bold Jigjid Growing up in the Mongolian capital of Ulan Baataar, Bold Jigjid never dreamed of becoming a farmer. His parents were workers in a garment factory, and as a boy he imagined piloting...

Today Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn presented FAO awards to four Asian farmers from Malaysia, Mongolia, Sri Lanka and Thailand for their outstanding achievements in agriculture and food production. A model organic farmer and founder of Lanka Farmers Forum, from Sri Lanka, Pathiraja Wijekoon Bandara Pathiraja Wijekoon Bandara, a 58-year-old from Kandy district in Sri Lanka is a farmer by profession. But he’s a warrior in spirit.Starting about two decades...

Today Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn presented FAO awards to four Asian farmers from Malaysia, Mongolia, Sri Lanka and Thailand for their outstanding achievements in agriculture and food production. Model organic farmer from Thailand, Sumalee Thongteera Ask Sumalee Thongteera a question about the farming cooperative she manages in Korat province in northeastern Thailand, and she takes out her iPad. Miss Sumalee admits that sometimes she likes to browse the latest...

A regional consultation by national officials and international experts on sustainable intensification of aquaculture in the Asia-Pacific today adopted a new framework to sustainable intensify farm raised fish, or aquaculture. FAO, the Asia-Pacific Fishery Commission (APFIC) and the Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA) jointly convened the consultation as a regional initiative to support the sustainable intensification of aquaculture in the  Asian region. The consultative workshop concluded that intensified aquaculture...

FAO Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Asia and the Pacific, Hiroyuki Konuma, together with other staff from FAO’s Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, extended their greetings and good wishes to His Majesty the King at Siriraj Hospital. From left to right the FAO well-wishers are: Monpilai Youyen,  Kanyarat Singhaphan, Chananut Auisui, Pinit Korsieporn (Regional Programme Coordinator), Man Ho So (Deputy Regional Representative), Hiroyuki Konuma (FAO Assistant Director-General...

Press Briefing: The press briefing on the conclusions of the high level consultation on policies to respond to high food prices in Asia and the Pacific region will begin immediately after day-two of the consultation concludes, today Tuesday, 02 October at 6 PM. The briefing will take place in the VIP lounge just off the Crystal Ballroom of the Hotel Plaza Athénée, A Royal Méridien Hotel, 61 Wireless Road (Witthayu) Lumphini...

A high level meeting of more than 120 food and agriculture experts from some 20 countries across the Asia-Pacific region today has called for swift, coordinated international action to stop rising food prices from escalating into a catastrophe that could strike tens of millions of people in the coming months. Recent sharp increases in global market prices of maize, wheat and soybeans and the negative implications of severe droughts in...