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5400752 company s profile doi kham
The Doi Kham Company (Thai : ดอยคำ ) is a rural farm development project of King Bhumibol's started in 1969. The meaning of the words "Doi Kham" comes from two northern Thai words. The word "doi" means "mountain" or "hill" while the word "kham" is a shortened word for "thongkham" which means "gold". The company produces a variety of agricultural products including ready-to-drink fruit juice, fruit juice concentrates, dehydrated fruits, fruit jam, canned fruits, tomato paste, frozen fruit and full fat soya flour.
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Doi Kham Food Products is a private limited company with registered capital of US$120,000. The company has total annual revenues of US$4.5 million. With its head office located in Bangkok, Doi Kham Food Products employs total of 200 persons including five engineers and five quality assurance staff.
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The Doi Kham Company farms along the irrigation canal named Klong Chonprathan, on the outskirts of Chiang Mai. The Doi Kham Royal Project was begun when King Bhumibol Adulyej visited Chiang Mai during the cool season in 1964. He had the opportunity to observe the problems of rural villagers. In the hilly northern region, farming was of the slash and burn variety and was causing the forests to be reduced to ashes. Also, the number of people growing opium poppies was increasing. At the king's command, the royal project was created to provide alternative sources of income for hill-tribe villages that formerly relied on opium production and slash and burn farming. All of products of the Doi Kham Company are produced by the royal project. The company produces a wide variety of agricultural products including ready-to-drink fruit juices, fruit juice concentrates, dehydrated fruits, jam, honey, and flowers. Doi Kham Company exports 30% its output to the Asia Pacific region.
The Doi Kham Company objective is to support the development of Thai agricultural products and to produce goods which have a high nutritional value without chemical additives. Their products do not contain preservatives or artificial flavors.
