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Government Analytics

Thailand uses analytics to fight farm disasters

By Adrienne Valdez | 23 June 2011

Thailand’s Agriculture Ministry designed an Agricultural Economics Operation Centre War room technology to detect natural disasters, monitor farm situations and give early warnings to possible affected areas.

The centre, equipped with a 50-million-baht information technology system, will compile a database and analyse information gleaned from diverse sources such as farms, state agencies and provincial units of the ministry’s Office of Agricultural Economics.

According to the Ministry’s Director, Dr. Bhumisak Rasri, the centre’s main mission is to provide timely information on potential threats to the farm sector that government agencies can use to prevent huge losses.

Aside from using a variety of analytical software for economic analysis and application and forecasting patterns, the centre will co-analyse data with academic institutes for more reliable results. It also links networks with relevant offices, allowing information sharing the moment it is needed.

”If there are any infestation outbreaks such as brown planthoppers in rice fields, we will promptly determine the exact area affected and in only minutes have a preliminary analysis on damaged sites, potential effects and government financial relief plans,” Rasri said.

The centre will also participate in an automatic information-exchange system with the Bank of Thailand, the National Economic and Social Development Board and the Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives. The collaboration includes a business intelligence module for disaster warnings.

The Agricultural Economics Operation Centre, one of the government’s most advanced and systematic agricultural database collections, will officially start operations on July 13 as it still needs to install 14 more large-screen TVs for better efficiency.

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