Industrial development, promoted under the National Economic and Social Development Plan, is steadily diminishing the area available for food production, and as these disappear, the tastiness of foods from diverse flavours and local ingredients are also placed under threat.
The Agriculture Department should object to a US government move to grant exclusive rights for a genetically modified (GM) papaya - developed from papaya native to Thailand - to a team of American researchers and Cornell University's research arm, Thai activists say.
