The Internal Trade Department is implementing 22 measures to manage fruit supply for this year’s harvest, with production estimated to grow by 3% to 6.78 million tonnes.
Wattanasak Sur-iam, the department’s director-general, said the higher output is attributed to cooler weather late last year and early this year.
He said the department remains concerned about the quality of fruit and held discussions yesterday with the Agriculture Department about introducing stringent measures to control the quality of exports, especially durian.
The Internal Trade Department also wants to register at least 120,000 orchards for Good Agricultural…
