Bangkok--21 Jan--Brand Now
The SEED Symposium 2020 conference supported by the German government, promotes social and environmental entrepreneurship in achieving sustainable development and green economy. Thai entrepreneurs are presented with an award recognizing their achievement in innovating 100% environmentally friendly products, paper packaging made from rice straw by Thai local communities. The winner enterprises were hand-picked from 906 applications from 9 countries active in the sectors of agriculture (43%), recycling (21%), energy (16%) and others (20%) participated in the awards program.
"SEED promotes and supports the development of environmental and social entrepreneurship in driving forward sustainability development agendas in the ASEAN region, by upholding enterprises and innovations that focus on solving environmental and social issues, pushing towards an eco-inclusive way of conducting business. The year 2019 saw a network of 906 enterprises from 9 countries, 690 from South Africa and 216 from Asia participating in the event. Among these participants, 38 of them consisted of Thai enterprises active in the sectors of agriculture (43%), recycling (21%), energy (16%) and others (20%) participated in the awards program," said Dr.Lewis Akenji, Executive Director, SEED.
"Continuous growth can be seen among green and inclusive entrepreneurs in the past year in South East Asia with government policies indicating support of service quality improvement, favorable market conditions and access of financial funding, allowing growing enterprises to become increasingly involved in the development of a green economy. The event demonstrated efforts from government sectors, namely Puey Ungphakorn Institute for Economic Research, Bank of Thailand, Thailand Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives and Thailand Development Research Institute, who have proposed development programs in various database integration and connecting technology with tech startups to benefit the development of agriculture and communities," continues Dr.Lewis.
"SEED program enables us in so many ways. After continuous consulting sessions and workshops with SEED advisory team, we understand better our business model including, operation and resources management, monitoring of impacts as well as business plan and expansion strategy. We can now adapt them into our own business practices," saysMrs.Jaruwan Khummuang, CEO and Manager of Fang Thai Factory Ltd., Partnership
"Local farmers often burn rice straw after harvesting. This causes smoke and carbon dioxide emissions. To transform waste into opportunity, we decided to make 100% biodegradable paper from rice straw. This resulted in paper packaging products made from rice straw. Our products are food grade which are needed in the current market as substitution for plastic packaging. It also adds a source of income for farmers. Fang Thai hopes the products are well received by investors and that we can play a part in eco-inclusive entrepreneurship," continuesMrs. Jaruwan.
SEED places emphasis on partnership in selecting the "SEED Awards" winners. We are confident that the award-winning enterprises will positively impact local communities with practical and applicable solutions which can be scaled-up to global level.
For entrepreneurs who are interested in partaking in the program, please see www.seed.unofor further information or visit facebook.com/seed.uno.
SEED Symposium Bangkok 2020” conference driving businesses towards green economy entrepreneurship
Economy News Tuesday January 21, 2020 14:18 —PRESS RELEASE LOCAL
Bangkok--21 Jan--Brand Now
The SEED Symposium 2020 conference supported by the German government, promotes social and environmental entrepreneurship in achieving sustainable development and green economy. Thai entrepreneurs are presented with an award recognizing their achievement in innovating 100% environmentally friendly products, paper packaging made from rice straw by Thai local communities. The winner enterprises were hand-picked from 906 applications from 9 countries active in the sectors of agriculture (43%), recycling (21%), energy (16%) and others (20%) participated in the awards program.
"SEED promotes and supports the development of environmental and social entrepreneurship in driving forward sustainability development agendas in the ASEAN region, by upholding enterprises and innovations that focus on solving environmental and social issues, pushing towards an eco-inclusive way of conducting business. The year 2019 saw a network of 906 enterprises from 9 countries, 690 from South Africa and 216 from Asia participating in the event. Among these participants, 38 of them consisted of Thai enterprises active in the sectors of agriculture (43%), recycling (21%), energy (16%) and others (20%) participated in the awards program," said Dr.Lewis Akenji, Executive Director, SEED.
"Continuous growth can be seen among green and inclusive entrepreneurs in the past year in South East Asia with government policies indicating support of service quality improvement, favorable market conditions and access of financial funding, allowing growing enterprises to become increasingly involved in the development of a green economy. The event demonstrated efforts from government sectors, namely Puey Ungphakorn Institute for Economic Research, Bank of Thailand, Thailand Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives and Thailand Development Research Institute, who have proposed development programs in various database integration and connecting technology with tech startups to benefit the development of agriculture and communities," continues Dr.Lewis.
"SEED program enables us in so many ways. After continuous consulting sessions and workshops with SEED advisory team, we understand better our business model including, operation and resources management, monitoring of impacts as well as business plan and expansion strategy. We can now adapt them into our own business practices," saysMrs.Jaruwan Khummuang, CEO and Manager of Fang Thai Factory Ltd., Partnership
"Local farmers often burn rice straw after harvesting. This causes smoke and carbon dioxide emissions. To transform waste into opportunity, we decided to make 100% biodegradable paper from rice straw. This resulted in paper packaging products made from rice straw. Our products are food grade which are needed in the current market as substitution for plastic packaging. It also adds a source of income for farmers. Fang Thai hopes the products are well received by investors and that we can play a part in eco-inclusive entrepreneurship," continuesMrs. Jaruwan.
SEED places emphasis on partnership in selecting the "SEED Awards" winners. We are confident that the award-winning enterprises will positively impact local communities with practical and applicable solutions which can be scaled-up to global level.
For entrepreneurs who are interested in partaking in the program, please see www.seed.unofor further information or visit facebook.com/seed.uno.