OCSB Promotes AI to Enhance the International Cane and Sugar Industries
Office of The Cane and Sugar Board (OCSB) is launching the program entitled, “Develop an intelligent hazard warning and analysis system for the Cane and Sugar industry”, to focus on extending and integrating with the existing information systems and a database in the Cane and Sugar industry by using Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a core for development of the said hazard warning and analysis system.
Besides, the OCSB has developed data links from geospatial systems to assist in analyzing the operations according to its main mission and connecting data center systems and big data analytic systems for the Cane and Sugar industries to increase potential and competitiveness in the future.
Mr. Narun Suksaman, the OCSB’s Deputy Secretary General, addressed that the development of the intelligent hazard warning and analysis system for the Cane and Sugar industry was under the 2nd phase, aiming to improve the OCSB’s information technology so that it could analyze, predict and give warnings about cane and sugar situations with the use of AI more correctly, precisely and fairly. This will also create cane and sugar data analysts to analyze information used in planning decision support for policy management and operational efficiency. The program aims to provide knowledge to the OCSB’s staff as well as sugar mills and cane growers in terms of digital technology and IT. This is done by bringing diverse information about the Cane and Sugar industry to analyze, creating a connection with various information in the same system and effectively communicating or working together in all sectors and related agencies whether it is provincial, central, and international information. If the information is relatively accurate for future preparation so that whether the amount of sugar and cane quantity will be managed because the two products belong to an international industry, and their export per harvesting season is not less than a hundred thousand million baht. Therefore, the sugar factories and cane growers must be equipped with knowledge to increase their competitiveness at the global level.
Mr. Narun added that the OCSB had to formulate a full-cycle plan on the Cane and Sugar industry, starting from connection between the demand and supply sides, each of which is composed of at least 3 issues: cane, sugar and biology. This is emphasized by mobilizing the national economy with digital technology to enable business sectors to reduce the cost of production of goods and services along with increasing the efficiency of business operations as well as laying the foundation for long-term business competition under the digital economy promotion. In doing so, information from various sources of inside and outside organizations will be served as a One – Stop Service Center that provide information accurately while upgrading and improving capacities of business sectors’ competitiveness which affects the sustainable expansion of Thailand’s economic base and employment rate in the future.
