Agriculture

Farmers Remain Unpaid by BAAC

Ronald G. Mangubat
Ronald G. Mangubat Information Officer of FFTC   The Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives or BAAC in Thailand reportedly has 55 billion baht in liquid assets but its board still refuses to advance money to unpaid farmers who pledged paddy for the current main crop. This...
Country: Thailand Topic: Agriculture
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Promotion of Agricultural Mechanization and Automation

Hwang-Jaw Lee
Hwang-Jaw Lee Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association   The mechanization and automation of agriculture are direct pathways to increase the production efficiency and product quality, by reducing cost and labor demands while improving working environment.  Since the...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Agriculture
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Rice Industry

Hwang-Jaw Lee
Hwang-Jaw Lee Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association   Rice is the most important staple food in Taiwan.  In recent years, about 260,000 hectares of paddy field was cultivated to rice annually with an output of about 1.2 million tons of brown rice. The Agriculture...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Agriculture
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Rice Procurement Policy

Hwang-Jaw Lee
Hwang-Jaw Lee Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association   In Taiwan, the government has had a program for purchasing rice at guaranteed prices since 1974. However, Taiwan’s rice procurement policy underwent adjustments over the years. The unlimited rice procurements in...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Agriculture
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Thailand’s Rice Pledging Schemes in Trouble

Ronald G. Mangubat
Ronald G.  Mangubat Information officer of FFTC   As peoples of the world remain at the edge of their seats waiting for developments to unfold in the continuing political crisis in Thailand, the liquidity-crunched rice-pledging scheme in this country seem to be headed at a...
Country: Thailand Topic: Agriculture
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