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Olam began Thai rice operations in 1994 and within a year had become one of Thailand’s top 10 rice exporters. We remain one of the largest traders of rice out of Thailand and have become one of the leading exporters from Thailand too.
Olam (Thailand) Limited was incorporated in 2009 and today operates a head office in Bangkok and a processing and packing factory in Nonthaburi province on the banks of the Chao Phrya River. We also work with other exporters as a single-point sourcing contact. This greater value chain participation provides us with deeper price, risk and product information insights that are a distinct market advantage.
We have a long-term commitment to Thailand and our recent sustainability initiatives include our support and involvement as the first corporate signatory to the country’s “Thai Rice NAMA” initiative which aims to help 100,000 farmers reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the next 5 years.
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Leading the Way
We are the largest Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP) (www.sustainablerice.org) Project in the world with our efforts in the Northeast Provinces of Ubon Ratchathani and Surin through the Better Rice Initiative Asia Phase II ( BRIA 2). We are reaching around 15,000 farmers and in 2019 we became the world’s first fully audited and certified program to deliver Sustainable Rice under the SRP banner with almost 30,000MT of the premium Thai Hom mali Paddy Rice certified.
Better Rice Initiative Asia (BRIA) Phase II – supporting the world’s first, large-scale, climate-smart and sustainable programme for rice.
Meet the Team
We have over 70 dedicated employees in across our operations in Thailand.
Niranjan Renati
Country Head, Thailand
News, Views and Insights
17th Dec, 2020
Olam named Asia Pacific’s best company to work for by Kincentric
Singapore
Olam International has been named by Kincentric as Regional Best Employer Asia Pacific in 2020 for the first time for upholding a strong workplace culture and deep employee engagement amid the challenges of COVID-19. The company is consistently seen as an employer of choice in regions it operates in.
This year, Olam Vietnam and Olam China were named by Kincentric as the best employers in their respective markets – which contributed to the APAC award accolade. Earlier in July 2020, for the second consecutive year, Olam Brazil was recognised by Great Place to Work (GPTW) as one of Brazil’s best employers, ranking fifth among all large agribusinesses in the country.
Joydeep Bose, Managing Director and Global Head, Human Resources, Olam International Limited, said,
“Our biggest challenge this year has clearly been to support our colleagues globally through COVID-19, even as we keep agri-food supplies arriving at tables globally while executing on our ambitious re-org
1st Oct, 2020
Coffee kiosk gives Brazilian smallholders direct access to global markets
Olam is experimenting with technologies that reach remote coffee farmers and empower them to sell to the company directly, thereby giving them access to global market prices.
Its first kiosk in Ibicocara - Brazil's Bahia region, allows farmers to drop off coffee samples and then Olam manages the testing and pricing negotiation via its digital platform, Olam Direct. The company has received more than 50 samples in July, its first month of operation, and farmer feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. Olam hopes to roll out the kiosks to serve additional farmers in 2021 and the locations may offer other value-add services for farmers and their communities.
Edmilson Rocha Aguiar, who farms 140 miles away from the closest Olam facility in Vitoria da Conquista, was one of the first participants in the kiosk test.
9th Oct, 2020
Improving every day for rural women
Olam’s ambition to improve smallholder farmer livelihoods cannot be fully achieved without addressing gender equality. A fundamental human right, gender equality is also strongly linked to agricultural productivity and social and economic development. As women, we are personally as well as professionally committed to improving the lives of women every day.
Yet in many rural communities where we work, women have vastly unequal decision-making power, control over use of income, and access to education, finance, land, and inputs. Entrenched social barriers keep them from accessing productive resources and even household decisions. They are often responsible for duties, such as gathering water and laborious food preparation that can involve hours of husking, cleaning, and pounding rice or maize for it to reach the form that wealthier consumers buy off the supermarket shelves. This then limits or denies them time to engage in remunerative activities or attend training on how to improve the
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