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Agency keen on fruit quality controls
Business, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 24/03/2023
» The Internal Trade Department is implementing 22 measures to manage fruit supply for this year's harvest, with production estimated to grow by 3% to 6.78 million tonnes.
Thailand may avenge fruit ban
Business, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 15/06/2018
» Thailand is mulling retaliatory measures against Indonesia after the latter banned imports of Thai longan and durian during harvest seasons.
Govt widens scope of rice loss payment demand
News, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 24/10/2016
» Authorities will meet this week to discuss procedures to widen the net as it seeks compensation from those responsible for massive losses incurred in the rice-pledging scheme during the 2012-13 and 2013-14 growing seasons.
Local rice prices set to increase
Business, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 24/05/2016
» Consumers are warned of a possible rise in the price of packaged rice as a dip in white rice output may lead packers to push for the increase over the next few months.
Ministry to clamp down on illegal foreign traders
Business, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 29/02/2016
» The Commerce Ministry is to improve law enforcement to address the issue of nominees of foreign companies infringing on local businesses protected by the Foreign Business Act (FBA).
Rice stock offer on AFET draws intense interest
Business, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 14/02/2014
» In a move aimed at speeding up its rice sales, the government put up 220,000 tonnes of its rice stocks yesterday on the Agricultural Futures Exchange of Thailand (AFET), drawing several interested potential buyers, mostly retailers and wholesalers.
Seeking a grain of truth
Business, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 02/01/2014
» Rice pledging is one of the key populist policies that put the Pheu Thai Party into power in 2011. Despite the scheme's name, it is essentially a purchase programme. The government buys the grain from farmers at 15,000 baht a tonne for paddy and 20,000 baht for Hom Mali rice, well above market prices.
Thailand, China ink rice deal
Business, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 21/11/2013
» The government signed a contract yesterday to sell 1.2 million tonnes of 5% white rice and 90,000 tonnes of tapioca on a government-to-government (G2G) basis to a state enterprise in Harbin, in northeastern China's Heilongjiang province, but the value of the deals were not disclosed.
Government shrugs off rice programme concerns
Business, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 18/11/2013
» Despite mounting complaints by rice farmers over late payments in the government's rice pledging scheme, the national rice policy committee has yet to call a meeting about the issue.