At present, Thailand has the standard of organic fertilizer and the standard of compost.
The organic fertilizer standard was announced by Department of Agriculture in 2005 while the compost standard was issued by National Bureau of Agriculture Commodity and Food Standard (ACFS) in 2005.
Each parameter of compost product issued in the standard is given in Table 1.
The standards are proposed as being achievable with good compost product.
Establishment of organic fertilizer standard or compost standard help the regulatory agencies can be used to assure an acceptably to users of compost product.