Milk for Thai Club has proposed that Dairy Milk and Milk Product Act B.E. 2551 (2008) should be revised and amended. One of the most important calls is to establish the National Dairy Council as a full-function agency, which serves as "a foundation" to develop the dairy farm industry and to ensure that dairy farmers will sruvive.
In its latest move, the Department of Livestock Development under Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives drew up a "Draft Act for Dairy Milk and Milk Product B.E......." and conduct a public hearing on August 26, 2009.
The Milk for Thai Club was concerned with two main issues: the representative proportion and the structure of the Committee of the Dairy and Milk Product Fund; and the management of the Dairy and Milk Product Fund.
In the first issue regarding the structure of the committee, the new draft of the Dairy Milk and Milk Product Act makes it clear that the representation of the state in the committee is higher than the representation of dairy farmers and business operators. The Milk for Thai Club proposed equal representative proportion of the committee. The government sector should play a role as the supporter to coordinate stakeholders in solving problems such as milk oversupply and milk quality, for example.
In the second issue regarding the Daily and Milk Product Fund, which serves as a major source of funds for the sustainable development of the dairy farm industry by collecting income from stakeholders in the industry. However, in the draft act of the Dairy Milk and Milk Product Fund, the authority to manage payment is controlled by the government, not the fund committee which is appointed from stakeholders who will ensure that the Thai dairy farm industry to be sustainably developed, to be self-dependent, and to be stable in a long run.
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