Bangkok--9 Feb--Bangkok Bank
Bangkok Bank Executive Chairman Kosit Panpiemras (sitting, middle) presided over the ‘Recovery for the Orchid Business after the Floods’ seminar which the bank held for its Modern Agriculture customers. The seminar is the first activity in the Lag Pliend Rean Roo (Share & Learn) project. Bangkok Bank Advisor Dr. Rungruang Isarangkul Na Ayutthaya (sitting, 4th from left), Inspector General for the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives Olan Pita (sitting, 4th from right) and seminar attendees shared information and knowledge about ways to recover the orchid businesses affected by floodwaters in the last quarter of 2011. The seminar also covered prevention and protection from factors that may affect the orchid industry. Farmers and business owners in attendance agreed to form an alliance and set up an orchid supply chain which will help strengthen businesses while providing better management systems. Eighty customers of the Modern Agriculture project from four groups - cut-flower orchids, orchid plants and flowers, tissue culture, and exporters, expressed interest in joining the supply chain.