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Thailand to import chicken eggs and canned fish
BANGKOK, November 1 (TNA) - Thailand is importing food products, particularly chicken eggs and canned fish, from neighbouring markets to address the problem of food shortages due to the ongoing flood crisis, the country's worst floods.
Thai Deputy Prime Minister Kittirat Na-Ranong said the move is in accordance with the Cabinet's resolution at its weekly meeting on Tuesday that all ministries speed up providing assistance to people affected by the country's vast inundations since late July.
Kittirat, who is also Commerce Minister concurrently, revealed that his ministry is first importing some seven million chicken eggs from Malaysia and Hong Kong this week and will be importing canned fish, at 400,000 cans weekly, as well as other basis food products.
The Thai deputy premier said that the government will try the best to ensure that consumers in all areas will have sufficient access to the basic food items, and that water filters imported from China are also being installed at temporary shelters for flood victims and provincial halls to relieve shortages of clean drinking water. (TNA)