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Thailand: Government helps flower growers enter foreign markets

The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) Fund in Thailand was recently allocated a budget to help cut-flower farmers cope with tougher competition under trade liberalisation and penetrate the Japanese and Dutch markets.

Duangporn Rodphaya, director-general of the Commerce Ministry's Foreign Trade Department, said the FTA Fund could help flower farmers increase their income and export products overseas after they were helped to develop new species for cut flowers last year.

"Last year, exports of cut flowers were worth Bt200 million. Exports this year should increase as they penetrate the Japan and the Netherlands markets," she said.

Under the FTA Fund project, flower farmers have been helped in developing new species to compete with other countries' cut products, mainly from China after the FTA between Thailand and that country reduced tariffs on flower imports.

Read more at The Nation
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