Big Data towards Future of Thailand’s Farming

Name: Pornthiya Tungkijrat (唐夕雅) 
Student ID: M0869827 

 Agriculture is a major contributor to the Thai economy. It is important to the nation’s sustainability, and almost half of all Thailand’s labour workers are employed in the farming industry. Thailand’s Agriculture is highly competitive, diversified and specialized and its exports are very successful internationally. Thailand’s agricultural sector, using our own technology, generates 8.4% of the country’s GDP and employs 40% of the country’s labour force, making it part of the backbone of the Thai economy.

Farmers who grow crops which are vulnerable to natural disasters, will in future get rapid assistance from government under the natural disaster relief program and assistance plan for low-income earners. National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (Nectec), the developers of the Food and Agriculture Revolution Model Information System (FAARMis). This farmer and field registration project is expected to register farmers in 6.7 million households in the country within the next couple years, says the Agriculture and Cooperatives ministry.

FAARMis is a registration project that creates digital data files of farmers and fields. The system allows officers of the Agriculture and Cooperatives Ministry to use tablet devices to collect and record data about farmers, their fields, and plants or crops grown. Using GPS, the field officers can include geographical data that ensures all fields are accounted for. The data is then transferred from the tablet to a permanent database. Registered farmers need to inform the local District Agriculture Extension Officer within 15-60 days of planting crops or starting other agricultural activity. Keeping the files updated helps ensure the government can quickly help the farmer in the event of a natural disaster.

The farmer registration will also create benefit to both the government and farmers, in terms of identifying the most suitable areas to plant crops such as rice, palm, cassava, rubber tree, sugar cane, and corn. The data will help with identifying ideal crop zones, matching plants to the most suitable soil in each area. The information could help farmers increase crop productivity and efficiency. So far the ministry has collected farmer and field data on around 3 million fields. Thailand has around 6.7 million farmers tending some 13 million fields totaling approximately 96 million rai nationwide.

FAARMis will also connect with the "What 2 Grow" and "Agri-Map" solutions, which are agriculture management programs that will enable farmers to access knowledge and information to support their fields.  The database now being built would allow for "big data" analytics to create and support agriculture management that will help farmers improve their productivity and general quality of life - and support the Thailand 4.0 scheme in the process.

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