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Eating insects: Sudden popularity
Jon Fernquest, Published on 31/05/2013
» Everyone is eating insects nowadays, even expensive restaurants (US, Thai, Japanese) but the old traditions of collecting & cooking insects haven't changed much.
Govt controls rice price, small farmer businesses fail
Jon Fernquest, Published on 20/03/2013
» As govt becomes only buyer of rice, local farmer groups producing high quality rice products forced out of business.
Govt banks: Rice funding costs rise as risk rises
Jon Fernquest, Published on 07/03/2013
» As govt becomes sole buyer of rice in country & govt rice stocks rise with few sales, govt bank borrowing costs grow.
Rice policy mainly benefits rich people
Jon Fernquest, Published on 08/08/2012
» Poor farmers get 5% of govt rice program money, merchants & millers get 63%.
Bringing durians back to life
Jon Fernquest, Published on 31/07/2012
» Floods in 2011 killed almost all the durian trees in Nonthaburi. Major efforts to replant these trees are underway.
Cancer chemicals in your vegetables?
Jon Fernquest, Published on 12/07/2012
» Vegetables you cook with everyday (cabbage, kale, beans, morning glory, chilli) may have cancer-causing chemicals in them.
Farming for a new generation
Jon Fernquest, Published on 03/07/2012
» With goal of raising farm productivity 52 times to 259,000 baht per rai, sparking a new interest in farming as a career is the aim of this project.
Contract farming: Broken dreams
Jon Fernquest, Published on 18/06/2012
» Farmers dreaming of stable incomes find that contracts lead to debt & getting used by large agribusiness companies. Farmers cover both investment & the losses.
Bringing motor racing to the farm
Jon Fernquest, Published on 08/05/2012
» Power tiller races excite imagination of young people who moved off to big city who might buy one for parents back home, also neighboring country future markets.
Adding value to food crops
Jon Fernquest, Published on 26/04/2012
» When pineapples & other crops are in oversupply, prices fall & farmers lose money. Innovative food products can put crops to better use & avoid oversupply.