Survey: farmers love rice pledging

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Survey: farmers love rice pledging

Published: 13 Sep 2012 at 17.06
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Farmers favoured the rice pledging scheme offering 15,000 baht a tonne as they can get money faster than the previous programme of rice insurance, according to a poll by the University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce (UTCC).

Thanavath Phonvichai, UTCC vice-president for research, said farmers felt the faster pay-out enables them to more quickly buy consumer products and other necessities.

About 1,200 farmers responded to the July 10-15 survey about the comparative benefits of the government's pledging scheme and the previous government's rice insurance programme.

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bluebottle
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Discussion 16 : 14 Sep 2012 at 11.4716
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Did someone mention buying votes.No never not this government.
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judge
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Discussion 15 : 14 Sep 2012 at 07.2715
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Somebody can tell me ,why I pay 35-40 Bath for a kilo rice while the farmers get only 1,5 Bath. Do I miss a point in the above story?
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Discussion 14 : 13 Sep 2012 at 22.2314
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@Domdunn,D10

I get your point, but the farmers gain nothing with this rice mortgage plan. The only thing that would help them is cutting out the middle men, teach them how to form cooperations and run a mill and export their produce directly, without any middle men interference to other countries and the domestic market. That will never happen, for anyone advocating that idea, won't live very long.
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Discussion 13 : 13 Sep 2012 at 22.1513
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'Mr Thanavath said one-third of the respondents were addicted to rice pledging, saying the government should continue running the programme.'

No numbers from the study except this one very fuzzy remark, and even this could mean that 2/3 don't want the program to continue. The avoidance of clear questions/answers/numbers does indeed suggest a selective presentation of the results.
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Discussion 12 : 13 Sep 2012 at 22.1112
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Disc10 DomDunn - No... If rice farmers can't make a living farming rice, they need to change jobs.
Farming needs to be more productive and more efficient - that means businesses taking over the industry. Propping up the industry indefinitely is holding back the country.

Move away from an agrarian society and towards an industrial society. Farming uses 40% of the Thai workforce but contributes only 11% of the GDP. What is the economic sense in continuing down the same uneconomic path indefinitely?
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Discussion 11 : 13 Sep 2012 at 21.5111
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englishbob D6

Just like the farmers of the EU.

So many posters here seem obsessed with Thailand's standing in the league table of rice producers, well, if you want farmers to produce rice you have to make it worth their while.
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Discussion 10 : 13 Sep 2012 at 21.4610
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elvis D6

Very few poor farmers anywhere in the world think further than the next harvest? If you want them to do that you have to raise their incomes so that they have a financial surplus that they can put away for a rainy day, or a dry day.
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Discussion 9 : 13 Sep 2012 at 21.229
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@ggh D7.

Mega-wealthy taxpayers? The mega-wealthy don't pay tax in this land. Where have you been the last ten years? It's the middle class and civil servants that pay tax here.
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Discussion 8 : 13 Sep 2012 at 21.188
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Farm subsidies in developed countries push up food prices and impoverish third-world farmers. Taxpayers in the EU get very little in return for their money.In 2010, the EU spent €57 billion on agricultural development, of which €39 billion was spent on direct subsidies.
The United States currently pays around $20 billion per year to farmers in direct subsidies as "farm income stabilization"
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Discussion 7 : 13 Sep 2012 at 20.067
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Dis 5. I'm glad to see the farmers are getting what they deserve. I am certain the mega wealthy tax payers can afford to pick up the tab for whatever the gonernment may fail to recover. A little wealth redistribution will help the less privlaged and not hurt the wealthy one bit.
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