Strengthening the export capacity of Thailand’s organic sector

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Organic markets in developed countries are growing at an unprecedented pace, and in 2007 the global market was 46 US$ bn. Yet despite the acknowledged potential for Asian producers and exporters, the rate of farm conversion to organic systems cannot keep pace with demand, thus constraining the capture of economic value in global, domestic and intra-regional markets. Various technical assistance projects supported by the European Union, the UN International Trade Centre and others have identified a number of factors which act as underlying constraints to conversion, and called for regional cooperation to address these issues. This paper reports the findings and recommendations of a EU-funded technical assistance study on organic agriculture in Thailand, conducted by the UN International Trade Centre and Thailand’s National Innovation Agency. The project was implemented from 2005 to 2006 primarily to offer national-level recommendations to strengthen Thailand’s organic export sector and

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