Unfortunately, I feel the middle-men don't like or want their profit margins eroded so they pay a decent rate for the rice they buy off farmers. There are the Co-operatives that operate in many villages, but these don't seem to have a single voice as is the UK. If these cooperatives banded together and set up a department that bought the rice from the farmers, which it then sold onto the millers, cutting out the middle-men, and any rice-farming subsidies were paid to just this cooperative and then passed onto the farmers, rather than via the wholesalers and millers, they just might get a bigger 'cut' than they presently do. Obviously the bureaucrats, officials etc who have previously been taking a 'cut' wouldn't like this!
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The Future Of Thai Rice Farming: Are Thai Rice Farmers Losing Heart?
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Unfortunately, I feel the middle-men don't like or want their profit margins eroded so they pay a decent rate for the rice they buy off farmers. There are the Co-operatives that operate in many villages, but these don't seem to have a single voice as is the UK. If these cooperatives banded together and set up a department that bought the rice from the farmers, which it then sold onto the millers, cutting out the middle-men, and any rice-farming subsidies were paid to just this cooperative and then passed onto the farmers, rather than via the wholesalers and millers, they just might get a bigger 'cut' than they presently do. Obviously the bureaucrats, officials etc who have previously been taking a 'cut' wouldn't like this!