Agricultural Fairs And Shows

[rice555]

Hello All, the Korat Show is more "school" oriented, since it's their 20th anniversary, they

have booths/displays for each department un like in the past which were more Ag.

Open till July, 31, time-09:00-20:00.

A short list of what was their: rice harvesters(Thai big ones), chippers(gas & PTO), rice

milling machines, all sorts of Thai fruit trees for sale(see banana pix), seed that the school

has produced, composts and other soil products.

To the L/H side of the gardens is a glass building which has info on growing sugar cane,

tapioca and something else??

It rained as we left the show today(5PM).

Some pix's of the show.

rice555

In pix #142826.jpg you can see the glass building.

[finner]

Next Thailand Agricultural Machinery Expo 2010 at Kasetsart University in Nakorn Pathon Dec 5 - 7. Website below:

http://www.thaiagrimac.com/eng/index.html

Se y'all there

finner

[rice555]

Hello All, this is on again, story and pix's in the 2 BKK papers.

rice555

Tours of the Jim Thompson Farm will be held every day until Jan 9, 2011, from 9am to 5pm. Admission is 50 baht for children and 80 baht for adults. For more information, call 02-762-2566 or visit

www.jimthompsonfarm.com.

[Mobaan]

What are the dates /places for the Khoen Kaen Agric. Fair that is supposed to be end of January??

[rice555]

Hello All, this is from the Thai paper we can name.

rice555

Surrounded by mountain and cooled by winter breezes, Choncharoen Farm in Kanchanaburi is a great day to spend a day admiring some rather unusual fruit and veggies like heart-shaped tomatoes and square watermelons.

Until next Sunday, the farm is hosting the "Chia Tai Fair 2011", a showcase of agricultural innovations and seed exhibitions under the slogan "Where quality food begins".

Chonchareon is one of several integrated research stations run by the Chia Tai Group, a seed subsidiary company of the well-known Charoen Pokphand Group.

The fair has been held biannually since 1999 with the aim of sharing knowledge about agriculture with local farmers and gardeners as well as the wider public. In just a few hours, visitors can discover more than 400 breeds of plants, vegetables, fruits and flowers spread over more than 100-rai of land.

This year, the farm has proved a popular destination with families, offering many fun activities as well as a market selling quality products for the kitchen.

"The fair aims to support and share knowledge with local agriculturists and public. Vegetables are good for the health, so we want to encourage Thais to cultivate homegrown vegetables," says chief operation officer, Manus Chiaravanond. "Browse around here and you'll see how these small seeds grow into important ingredients for our daily meals."

The fair is divided into four zones: blooming flower gardens, greenhouses, vegetable plots and fruitgrowing areas. At the entrance, there's a pavilion housing an agricultural product exhibition and featuring a five-colour vegetable garden in geometric form.

Colourful and bright, the massive plot is planted with Chinese kale, cauliflower, water morning glory and cos salad in varying five shades of green interspersed with purple Chinese cabbage and eggplants and with sweet tomatoes and watermelons adding a slash of red.

Alongside is a row of giant pumpkins and melons in yellow, accompanied by white eggplants and cucumbers. The highlight is more than 250 species of flowers and plants in vivid shades and different shapes.

The innovations are here too - the heart and square-shaped watermelons, cute heart-like tomatoes, grandfather chillies that blow your socks off, gigantic pumpkins, plus marrows that resemble bolsters.

Walk past a colourful archway of beautiful flowers and a long tunnel made of bitter gourds and you come to a green home garden designed to give visitors ideas about landscaping their own backyards.

Useful and good for the health, holy basil, chilli, eggplant, Chinese kale, Chinese cabbage, water morning glory, celery cabbage, sponge gourd, lemon glass and coriander are highlighted as the best choices.

For those with limited space, the farm has a demonstration patch that shows how cos salad can flourish in banana trees and tyres and be ready for eating within 30 to 45 days.

Another popular stop is the greenhouse zone showcasing the farm's seed innovations and where visitors can check out Chia Tai's latest farming technology.

Some nurseries are home to delectable sweetheart cherry tomatoes, yellow Japanese and seedless melons with a deliciously sweet flavour and squash shaped like balloons and UFOs. Also on display is the best selling cherry -but here it's not just, well cherry in colour, but also green, yellow, red, orange and chocolate.

"We're one of the biggest seed distributors in Thailand. We have the research stations in Kanchanaburi, Chiang Mai, Kunming in China and Indonesia. Our best sellers include melon, pumpkin, sponge gourd, cabbage and bitter cucumber," says Wichet Pornlertpong, deputy general manger of the seed business. "We want to promote tomatoes in the local market. They are good for health. Many people think that they're a vegetable, but actually they are fruit. So we try to develop the seeds of tomatoes. Right now cherry tomatoes are popular as they have a sweet flavour.

Right next door to the fruit is the flower nursery and it's like walking into a paradise of colour. More than 200 species are on show from blue sage, celosia, sulphur cosmos, zinnia Magellan, dwarf cosmos, salvia sahara and moss verbena to begonia mint, vinca bali, celosia plumose century and dianthus ideal.

If you're weary of strolling around, take a break at the leisure zone and snap up some special edition home-grown veggie stamps at the Thailand Post corner.

Shopaholics can end their tour at the "shopping zone", buying up quality food products from CPF, fresh vegetables, fruits and seeds from Chia Tai and other attractive merchandise from local vendors.

Bring a hat and some sunscreen and you can even harvest your own cauliflower, celery cabbages, broccoli and tomatoes straight from the garden.

>>>

Choncharoen Farm is located at 170/1, KanchanaburiSaiyok Road, Tambon Wangdong, Kanchanaburi province. It's open daily from 8am to 5pm. Admission is free. For more details, call (02) 639 4000, (02) 813 5050 or visitwww.Chiataigroup.com and www.Facebook.com/Chiataifair

[rice555]

Hello All, from the Thai bamboo telegraph I hear the the Kesetsart U Ag show in

BKK starts on 1-28-11(for non US, 28-1-11) at the same place as posted before

on this thread. The fair/show will run for 1 week.

I'm trying to find a current link for the show info and will post if found, or someone

else has, please post.

rice555

[Foreverford]

Hello All, from the Thai bamboo telegraph I hear the the Kesetsart U Ag show in

BKK starts on 1-28-11(for non US, 28-1-11) at the same place as posted before

on this thread. The fair/show will run for 1 week.

I'm trying to find a current link for the show info and will post if found, or someone

else has, please post.

rice555

Well done getting this out there as Ireaslly needed to make a contact and was here in Bkk. Made it at about 6:30 am (golf later at the Sports Club so can't be late) and almost nobody was open on the first day of the show but miraculously my guy was there and found the info at the other place that I needed even though noone was about. Looks similar to last year so it is definitely worth going if you haven't been before.

Easiest way to get there is to take Subway or Sky Train to Mor Chit station and cab on over for about 70 baht.

[rice555]

Hello All, it's time for the Korat Ag show again, same place,

starts the 29th and runs till Aug. 7th.

Look for an older post for phone no. if you need fore info.

rice555

goats? pigs? chippers? rice harvesters? sunflower seed?

bananas? rice milling machines? rototillers? have had before!

[rice555]

Hello All, went today, different than last year but still good.

Lot of machines and and a nice assortment of trees and grape

vines(green/red/purple) 4-sale. Cows, but the goats are late.

rice555

[Latis]

Does anyone know of any agricultural fairs on for the rest of 2011? I missed Kasetsart Fair at the beginning of the year. Wondering if any shows planned for end of August through to December 2011? Thanks.

[rice555]

Hello Latis, this magazine has several pages each month of shows/seminars/lectures in LOS

and International. You can use the www at the top R/H corner if you read Thai.

rice555

[andycrosby]

Could we not run a Farang fair of our own to all get together ?

[tingtong]

closest to it might be IssanAussie's farang farmers meeting in this coming weekend, 17-18 Sept...check on forum.

[SiamKitt]

I'm due back in Thailand mid Nov till July 2012. Apart from the Korat agri-show in August-time, does anyone know of any other agri-shows taking place..I'm mainly intrested in machinery & implements rather than fruit & goats. Dates & venue info would be most welcome thanks.

[tingtong]

Should have one agri fair now in Khon Kaen, i was told from the 5th Nov till 12th about.

sorry, cant give you more details.

[Foreverford]

Kaesesart (sp) University ususaly has their Ag Fair about the middle of January and has all you are looking for and more. Floods will most probably afffect this year's event. Choke Dee Fords and it's

Free

I'm due back in Thailand mid Nov till July 2012. Apart from the Korat agri-show in August-time, does anyone know of any other agri-shows taking place..I'm mainly intrested in machinery & implements rather than fruit & goats. Dates & venue info would be most welcome thanks.

[SiamKitt]

Should have one agri fair now in Khon Kaen, i was told from the 5th Nov till 12th about.

sorry, cant give you more details.

...Thanks for that T.T.

[rice555]

Hello All, there is a Ag&OTOP show in Korat(started today) at the

stadium on the W. side of town, where they held the SEA Games

a few years back.

Sorry to have cut off the time, it's 10am-10pm.

Maybe there will be sheep!

rice555

[rice555]

Hello All, the wife went to a BBQ for a neighbor lady at the farm today,

and was talking to another lady from the farm but also lives in Korat

like us , but on the W. side of town a few miles from the stadium and

had already gone to the show.

It's just an OTOP products show, with some farm produce for sale,

'NOT' an Ag Show, so will check out the new Lotus on the E. side.

rice555

[HERMABA]

Hello All,

I just got the information that the Kasetsart Universty fair ( BKK) will take place from 4. February until the 12 .Feb. 2012. I will sent the link to the the ovwerwiev map when it is available.

Hermaba

[rice555]

Hello All, this is more of a flower show, but have some 'cow' stuff,

my translation hardware is hungry, so not working to go.

rice555

[Dizzle]

More information on the Kasetsart Agricultural Trade Fair, being held February 4 - 12, is available at:

http://www.ku.ac.th/newdesign/hilight_detail.php?highlightID=193

If you can't read Thai, copy and paste the web address into Google translate -- that should give you a pretty good idea of what you can expect at the fair. I just went to the Khon Kaen Ag Fair last weekend and my farm manager says the Kasetsart fair is virtually the same thing. I am, nonetheless, still going to check it out.

[andycrosby]

The Khon Kaen Ag Fair was not just bad it was pants, the animal section was a joke , there were no talks, and everything was double the price it should have been.

[HERMABA]

Hello All,

just visited the Kasetsart University fair totday. I think this year the fair is much smaller then the years bevore and have only a lot of food, some vegetable, fruit and flower. No farm equipment, machinery or tools .

[andycrosby]

Pattaya livestock show is on the 30th april to the 1st may

[rice555]

Hello All, the Hortiasia 2012 is next month, the list of exhibitors has grown from

when I last checked.

rice555

For a quick look of who's their and where, the floorplan of the the show use the

first link(pdf)

http://www.hortiasia.net/images/stories/flies/Horti_Floorplan_120326.pdf'>http://www.hortiasia.net/images/stories/flies/Horti_Floorplan_120326.pdf

This link is for all info on the show.

http://www.hortiasia.net/

[dogeatinghotchips]

I hear there is an agricultural event starting in Chiang Mai this weekend? Is this correct, can anyone confirm the location? Cheers

[bottleymike]

Hello All,

just visited the Kasetsart University fair totday. I think this year the fair is much smaller then the years bevore and have only a lot of food, some vegetable, fruit and flower. No farm equipment, machinery or tools .

I went to the same show a couple of years ago, and it was as you say.Mostly food stalls, flowers and fruit trees for sale. No agriculural machinery that I saw at all.If you were after new varieties of fruit trees, as I was, its worth a look.

[cobbler]

Hi to all,

Anybody have any info on any ag fairs dowm between Bangkok and Phuket?/

Cheers Cobbler

[Brabo]

For those who are interested: http://www.vivasia.nl/en/Bezoeker.aspx

Never visited VIV Asia before. Is it worth to go there?