Mr. Chantanon Wannakhet, Secretary-General of the Office of Agricultural Economics (OAE), Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, revealed that the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, in collaboration with all affiliated agencies, has developed and announced the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives' 2027 Action Plan. This plan, approved by the Minister of Agriculture and Cooperatives on October 20, 2025, serves as a framework for the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives' operations and project plans to be submitted for budget allocation for the 2027 fiscal year. The key objectives are to align with the country's development direction, including the National Strategy, the Master Plan under the National Strategy, the 13th National Economic and Social Development Plan, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and adapt to the changing global context. The 2027 Action Plan's vision is "Farmers with Better Quality of Life and Increased Incomes," focusing on development in five key areas:

1. Strengthening Agricultural Security Focus on addressing illegal, unregulated (IUU) fishing, managing migrant workers, and strictly preventing human trafficking. Farmers are encouraged to apply the Sufficiency Economy Philosophy and the King's Philosophy. 2. Enhance agricultural competitiveness by developing local identity agriculture, safe agriculture, organic agriculture, processed agriculture, and smart agriculture. This includes strengthening cooperatives, community enterprises, and farmer groups, along with developing efficient agricultural infrastructure and logistics systems. 3. Create and distribute social equity in agriculture, strengthen social capital, proactively support an aging agricultural society, enhance the potential of small-scale farmers as agribusiness entrepreneurs, and create an environment that fosters the grassroots economy. 4. Manage agricultural resources and the environment in a balanced and sustainable manner, developing ecological agricultural areas, aiming for a green and marine economy, fostering climate-friendly growth, managing pollution and chemicals according to international standards, implementing watershed-based water management, and increasing water productivity across the entire system. 5. Develop public administration and agricultural research systems, emphasizing the development of digital public services, developing a high-performance public administration system, preventing corruption, developing personnel, and developing laws, as well as research and development of agricultural technology and innovation.

Furthermore, the plan establishes key targets and indicators. The 2027 Government Action Plan consists of five key indicators: 1. The GDP growth rate in the agricultural sector must increase by at least 3%. 2. The agricultural productivity rate must increase by at least 1%. 3. The net cash income of farm households must increase by at least 10%.

4. Farmer institutions registered with the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives must meet the required standard strength. Cooperatives must have at least 50% strength at Levels 1 and 2, community enterprises must have at least 35% potential, and farmer groups must have at least 35% strength at Levels 1 and 2. 5. A total of 2,140,000 farm households benefit from water management. Interested parties can download the full plan details at www.oae.go.th or contact the Agricultural Policy and Planning Section, Agricultural Policy and Planning Division, at 0 2940 6671-2.

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