On November 8, 2021, Labour Minister Mr. Suchart Chomklin joined to listen to the Southern Border Provinces Development Strategy Committee’s (SBPDSC) press conference and important projects to be driven in 2022. Prime Minister General Prayuth Chan-ocha joined as the chairman of the press conference and delivered policies. The Cabinet, the Secretary-General of the Southern Border Provinces Administrative Center (SBPAC), representatives of the Governors from all five southern border provinces, and related officials attended the occasion at the Phakdi Bordin Building, Government Houses.
Past achievements and progress include solving the people’s problems amid the COVID-19 situation that has caused unemployment, a lack of career and income, problems returning from Malaysia, and other issues. Measures were launched to resolve both short-term and long-term problems concretely. The committee has driven land utilization and restored the fundamental economy, following the action plan on integrated power management in the southern border provinces, for stability, prosperity, and sustainability. In the past two years, the pilot project planted bamboo in an area of 10,000 rai by about 1,500 farmers and is expected to generate income for the farmers, valued at no less than 72 million Baht annually. It has developed the potential of Thai-Malaysian border customs checkpoints (nine checkpoints) to improve service levels and border trade, be highly effective, and improve medical safety standards under the COVID-19 situation. The effort is to promote the area as an important economic base in the long term through projects to strengthen villages, communities, and subdistricts within the southern border provinces. It is considered a model project to truly change the management approach of work plans, projects, and budgets to people at the village and subdistrict level and aims to solve the problems of low productivity among farmers. It has resolved urgent issues through urgent purchase coordination and implemented long-term solutions by completing the value chain. For example, by increasing agricultural processing plants such as durian, coconut, banana stone, and bamboo. It has resolved the outbreak of a new type of leaf infection among rubber trees in the southern border provinces. This is an example of the success that the SBPDSC has accomplished together.
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Division of Public Relations
9 November 2021
