1 - 10 of 137 results for "rice pledging"

  1. 1. opinion | 04 Apr 2013

    Come clean on rice pledging

    EDITORIAL

    Newspaper section: News

    » Finally, the government has agreed to accept the hard truth that it can no longer buy every grain of paddy from rice farmers as promised when it launched the populist rice pledging scheme two years ago.

  2. 2. business | 19 Mar 2013

    Virabongsa blasts rice pledging

    By Post Reporters, Newspaper section: Business

    » The government's costly rice pledging programme is again under fire, this time riling Virabongsa Ramangkura.

  3. 3. news | 31 Mar 2013

    B105 bln approved for rice-pledging

    By Patsara Jikkham

    » CHACHOENGSAO - The cabinet on Sunday approved the Commerce Ministry's proposal for a budget of 105 billion baht for use in the rice-pledging scheme for the off-season produce of the 2012-2013 crop year, government sp...

  4. 4. business | 25 Mar 2013

    Pledging scheme revamp will sync with farm zoning

    AGRICULTURE

    By Phusadee Arunmas, Newspaper section: Business

    » The government is preparing to restructure the rice pledging scheme for the second crop of the 2014 season to make it comply with a new agricultural zoning plan by which the government will no longer promote growing rice...

  5. 5. opinion | 19 Mar 2013

    Victims to pledging

    Local Concerns: The collapse of organic rice

    Newspaper section: News

    » There is no doubt about it. The rice pledging policy is overwhelmingly popular with rice farmers. Why shouldn't it be? The paddy price offered by the Thai Rice Association is only 10,500 baht a tonne when the price o...

  6. 6. business | 13 Apr 2013

    Another blow for Thai rice

    By Phusadee Arunmas, Newspaper section: Business

    » The Thai rice industry, already reeling from a staggering stockpile thanks to the government's rice pledging programme, took a body blow courtesy of an analysis of commercially available rice imported to the US that ...

  7. 7. business | 25 Mar 2013

    Rice balancing act

    By Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Newspaper section: Business

    » The government will be left in limbo if the rice pledging programme is extended to the next harvest season.

  8. 8. business | 19 Apr 2013

    State frets about pledging overages

    RICE

    By Phusadee Arunmas, Newspaper section: Business

    » The government tightened rice-pledging measures for fear the amount pledged for the 2012/2013 season will exceed the 22 million tonnes budgeted.

  9. 9. news | 31 Mar 2013

    B74bn sought for next rice harvest

    By Patsara Jikkham, Newspaper section: News

    » The Finance Ministry will ask the cabinet to approve a rice-pledging programme for the off-season crop.

  10. 10. news | 30 Mar 2013

    74 billion baht sought for next rice harvest

    By Patsara Jikkham

    » The Finance Ministry will ask the cabinet to approve a rice-pledging programme for the off-season crop.

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