Thai Deputy PM insists on using administrative order in rice cases
Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam has reiterated the government is not bullying ex-PM Yingluck Shinawatra when it demands compensation from her for damages from the rice-pledging programme using using the 1996 administrative tort law instead of the Civil Code. Damages can be claimed in one of the ...
Auctions of rotten rice to begin this month
The Thai government will begin auctioning 2 million tonnes of rotten rice by the end of November, looking to offload stockpiles of the staple grain built up under the rice-pledging programme. The world’s second biggest rice exporter after India is holding about 13 million tonnes of ...
Better Rice initiative to help Mekong farmers
About 3,000 farmers from three Mekong Delta provinces will benefit from a project called Better Rice Initiative Asia that has been launched in Can Tho City. Carried out as part of the Integrated Coastal Management Programme, the project aims to promote private-public partnerships along the rice ...
Thai rice exports to stay strong, say shippers
Thailand’s rice situation is stable thanks to several pending purchase orders under government-to-government (G-to-G) contracts with the Philippines and China, president Charoen Laothammatas said on 11 November. He expects Thai paddy prices will remain steady at 8,000 to 8,500 baht a tonne next year. Keep reading ...
Thai-owned BAAC launches B42bn scheme to assist farmers
Thailand’s state-owned Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) has launched three financial support programmes to help shore up paddy prices during the 2015-2016 harvest season. Keep reading ...
Aung San Suu Kyi seems to have Myanmar’s countryside in her corner
This village at the end of a long, bumpy dirt road in the Irrawaddy Delta would seem a natural stronghold for the former generals who rule Myanmar. The villagers, mostly rice farmers, are overwhelmingly Buddhist and undereducated, and they live in a society still shaped by ...
Rice market gains momentum
The rice market is expected to continue gaining ground in export, as the Philippines plans to import a million tonnes in early 2016. The announcement comes on the back of winning previous bids to sell 450,000 tonnes of rice to the Philippines and a million ...
Difficult rainy season ends
As a fickle rainy season that has seen areas of Cambodia plagued by drought draws to a close, the country’s rice production remains nearly on target, though food insecurity is still a problem for individual communities, according to the World Food Programme. The season’s slow start affected 234,695 ...
Rice scare in Poipet reveals plastic pieces
A rice-milling company has admitted to letting pieces of plastic from its machinery make their way into bags of rice after residents and authorities in Banteay Meanchey’s Poipet town raised fears of “plastic rice” upon finding their rice abnormally sticky since the Pchum Ben holiday. Keep ...
Devastating Myanmar floods send paddy prices skyward
Surging demand following the widespread destruction of paddy fields during the recent flooding has forced a record spike in prices, say the Myanmar Rice Federation and local paddy and rice traders in Naypyidaw. Since September, the price per 100 baskets of Manaw Thukha old crop in ...
