{"id":487612,"date":"2026-05-16T11:26:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T11:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/487612\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T11:26:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T11:26:18","slug":"dhanin-urges-water-push-to-unlock-thailands-farm-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/487612\/","title":{"rendered":"Dhanin urges water push to unlock Thailand\u2019s farm economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dhanin Chearavanont<\/strong>, senior chairman of Charoen Pokphand Group, has urged the government to put water management at the centre of Thailand\u2019s economic transformation, saying the country\u2019s agriculture and food sectors remain a vast opportunity despite global crises.<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/lg-webp.webp\" alt=\"Dhanin urges water push to unlock Thailand\u2019s farm economy\" class=\"img-fluid w-100 showcaption-false\" style=\"width: 1300px; height: 731px;\" width=\"1300\" height=\"731\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>\n        <\/p>\n<p>Speaking at \u201cThe Listening Forum: Voices to the PM \u2013 Entrepreneurs Speak, Government Listens\u201d at Government House, Dhanin said Thailand still had \u201cenormous opportunity\u201d, especially in agriculture and food, which he described as \u201coil above the ground\u201d, a resource that can be created repeatedly and without limit.<\/p>\n<p>He proposed that the government accelerate investment in irrigation systems, water management and modern agriculture to raise farmers\u2019 incomes, revitalise the grassroots economy and strengthen Thailand\u2019s long-term food security.<\/p>\n<p>Dhanin said Thailand had major strengths in climate, sunlight and cultivation potential, but the biggest problem facing Thai agriculture was water.<\/p>\n<p>He said that if the government invested in irrigation, built reservoirs and distributed water to farming areas across the country, the same way that electricity and roads were once extended to every village,\u00a0Thailand could dramatically improve farm output and farmers\u2019 incomes.<\/p>\n<p>Based on direct experience, he said farmers with access to water could grow crops up to three times a year. With better management efficiency, output per rai could increase by as much as fivefold.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOil above the ground is more important than oil underground, because everyone needs food. Farmers are benefactors who feed the whole country, but today they are still poor. We must help solve this problem,\u201d Dhanin said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dhanin Chearavanont, senior chairman of Charoen Pokphand Group, has urged the government to put water management at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[148841,35373,9,79,179,18,13181,1961,19,17,212024,189590,133033],"class_list":{"0":"post-487612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-agricultural-reform","9":"tag-anutin-charnvirakul","10":"tag-breaking-news","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-farming","15":"tag-food-security","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-public-private-forum","19":"tag-thailand-economy","20":"tag-water-management"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116584015258837438","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}