Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) supports Lampang community enterprises and agriculturalists to increase value-added Khaotan rice cracker and pineapple by science, technology and innovation application.

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Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) supports Lampang community enterprises and agriculturalists to increase value-added Khaotan rice cracker and pineapple by science, technology and innovation application.

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            MOST is requested by Lampang province to apply science, technology and innovation for promoting potential for competition on economic and social aspects, agricultural safety, SME’s entrepreneurs’ and OTOP groups’ potential. The outstanding Lampang’s products are ceramic products, Khaotan rice cracker and Pattavia pineapple. At this time, MOST by Thailand Institute for Scientific and Technological Research (TISTR) has an important role to help Pineapple Co-operative Group at Ban Sadet sub-district and Amphan Khaotan rice cracker entrepreneurs at Ban Pao sub-district, Muang Lampang.

            Amphan Khaotan rice cracker produces and distributes both retail and whole-sale. The problem of this enterprise is during fried sticky rice processing, there are many small pieces of sticky rice cracker broken. The entrepreneur wants to increase value-added the rice cracker waste. TISTR help to improve production process to create new products from rice cracker waste to be “Longan Chocolate Rice Bar” and also develop packaging for retail sale.

            The problems of Lampang pineapples are the unqualified plant breeding and no central markets which affect to high transport cost. TISTR improves new plant breeding by selecting the qualified plant breeding according to standard by technology for improving plant nutrient. And TISTR also develops the processing- products from pineapples for value added for instance vinegar, dried pineapple and pineapple curry. TISTR supports knowledge application and technology for processing machine to increase efficiency for community enterprises’ production. Especially science, technology and innovation application extends community strengthening.  The community enterprises and co-operative groups should exchange learning mechanism each other which is beneficial for Thai society.

            Additionally, Geo-Informatics and Space technology Development Agency (GISDA) as the agency to provide the data services on satellite and geo-informatics and also develop data system on agriculture in order to manage plantation areas. GISDA makes the Lampang pineapple plantation area map from satellite photograph including map on plantation scale and agriculturalists’ data in order to know production capacity and also overlaps the data concerned for example data on pineapple land suitable, data on plantation size, data on weather, humidity, aridity and factory location for pineapple integrated management.  GISDA cooperates with Lampang Agriculture Office and Lampang Pineapple Co-operative Group to develop and transfer knowledge for database management.

            In this matter, Minister of Science and Technology is interested in detail and standard on map and geo-informatics data and also assigns the policies to make central maps for mutual systematical application and proceed this matter to the next MOST meeting.

 

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