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Senate panel wants to examine old-rice stockpile
Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 28/05/2024
» The senate committee on consumer protection wants to examine the quality of the old, stockpiled rice the government plans to auction off, and also suspects there are legal problems around its sale.
Heavy push for rice megafarms
Business, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 16/01/2017
» The government is committed to ramping up the rice megafarm scheme this year, for which it provides soft loans, machinery and agricultural equipment to farmers in order to cut production costs and raise productivity. The scheme will cover 1.05 million rai of related farmland.
State will take 16 years to pay off rice-pledging debt
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 19/09/2016
» Government debt worth 510 billion baht, borrowed from the Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) to fund the last administration's loss-making rice-pledging scheme, will take an estimated 16 years to be paid off.
Rotten rice may be used for ethanol
Online Reporters, Published on 30/07/2014
» The Finance Ministry is looking to sell about 100,000 tonnes of rotten rice in the government’s stockpile to national energy conglomerate PTT Plc for processing into ethanol.
Govt to auction 670,000 tonnes of rice
Online Reporters, Published on 13/05/2014
» The Foreign Trade Department will auction off 450,000 tonnes of rice on Wednesday and about 220,000 tonnes on Thursday on the Agricultural Futures Exchange of Thailand (AFET).
Farmers disrupt auction, cut power
News, Post Reporters, Published on 13/03/2014
» Rice farmers and the People’s Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC) protesters cut electricity at the Commerce Ministry and forced officials to leave, causing the disruption of the rice auction held by the Agricultural Futures Exchange of Thailand (AFET) yesterday.
Rotten rice seized in Phitsanulok
Online Reporters, Published on 28/02/2014
» A public auditor team seized some rice at a warehouse in Wat Bot, Phitsanulok province, after finding a portion was rotten.
615,000 tonnes of rice sold, says govt
Online Reporters, Published on 28/11/2013
» The government has sold around 615,000 tonnes of stockpiled rice to local entrepreneurs for 12.3 billion baht, and the money will be used to repay the Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives, the Foreign Trade Department announced.
Going with the grain
Krissana Parnsoonthorn, Published on 14/10/2013
» Cheang Sen Kai, a Singaporean businessman who lost his steel business in the wake of the Asian financial crisis in 1997, ended up falling in love with the charm and taste of Thai <i>hom mali</i> (fragrant, or jasmine) brown rice after a visit to Chiang Mai a decade ago.
Flooded farmers say government rice-pledging scheme is 'useless'
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 13/10/2013
» Farmers in Chachoengsao hoping to make the most of the rice-pledging scheme have been hit with severe flooding.