The Department of Agriculture (DoA) is producing handbooks on growing cannabis as part of efforts to register wider varieties of the indigenous plant, according to the Agriculture Ministry.
Department promotes green chiretta cultivation
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published : 19 Jul 2021 at 04:30
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The Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives is promoting the cultivation of green chiretta a traditional herb which can aid the recovery of Covid-19 patients to farmers throughout the country.
Deputy Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister, Mananya Thaiset, said the Department of Agriculture and Cooperative Promotion Department will promote green chiretta to agricultural cooperatives around the country. This comes after recent research which showed the plant contains high quantities of andrographolides, which has been proven to aid recovery from Covid-19.
The project, which will run from August to December, will see around 100 rai of land controlled by five agricultural cooperatives planted with green chiretta supplied by the Department of Thai Traditional and Complementary Medicine (DTAM). Next year, the project will be expanded across 400 rai of land owned by 2
Cabinet ministers, MPs enter Covid quarantine
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published : 7 Apr 2021 at 11:09
5 Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, seated centre, with new cabinet ministers at Government House in Bangkok on March 29. (Photo: Chanat Katanyu)
Several cabinet ministers and all Bhumjaithai Party MPs have begun 14-day quarantine after being in close contact with new Covid-19 cases.
Natreeya Taweewong, adviser to the prime minister, said on Wednesday that the ministers who took the leave were Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam, Tourism and Sports Minister Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn, Transport Minister Saksayam Chidchob, Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Chalermchai Sri-on, his deputy Mananya Thaiset, Education Minister Trinuch Thienthong and her deputies Khunying Kalaya Sophonpanich and Kanokwan Vilawan.
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