Zeid

new T-shirts to be sold

I was Emirates Holiday Travel Trade show today

and one of the travel agents was still saying that the Tsunami wa sthe big hit to thailand, and he is a travel agents and seems to have no idea about what happend in thailand.

funny but true

in favor of thailand, with all what has happened tourists have not been injured or confronted, yes it was annoying for many stranded in the airport, but many that follwed the system and registered got the assistance they need from the Thai Goverment

Compare the situtation of thailand to theo other, India, Bombs train hijacking.

Sri Lanka, denied the MFA of sweden, and will not do a truce

Malaysia, credit card fraud

Cambodia some are report it is more expensive that thailand when you look at the package as a whole

other ASEAN Countries nto considered as safe.

in my opinion i think thailand is still considered as a much better place to visit,

Don't you just love thai visa and the feedback you get, from seriousness and good will to sarcasm and....... anyway.

the reason for buying a land i think or believe maybe due to my eastern mentality, that instead of spending my money, on things that i will not use or will depreciate or loose value, is save it by buying Land regardless where it is, because if not in my life time for my daughter, may be daughters and sons they will have something to fall back on in the future. so it is more of a long term saving thing rather than an investment. (land has a road leading to it.)

to answer you i am 30 well almost 31, how much do i earn, not much, but prefer to put it in land rather than spend it on hmm.. and new land cruiser. for investment, check above.

will i enjoy working it yes.

CHANOTE

what is the title though, is it chanote?

Maize i could not agree more, regarding the Baht relation with the USD and that is why i am a bit hesitant.

1. title will be transfered and owed by the mrs, as i can not buy

2. it is one land on plot

3. not sure about the development side

4. no flooding, far from the dam, but has one or two waterwells

5. all rice land, some started planting euco

6. rural area

idea for having it is plant some euco, make chicken house, some fish lakes, and leave a good part of it for rice, and veggies.

5-10 driving minutes far from my home,

and i bet there will be tons of other opinions coming in.

interesting comments and ideas for the land as well as for the economic side

Interesting, yes certainly - but worth it (?) impossible to say - depends on a number of factors:

1) what titleship comes with the land (e.g. is it CHANOTE)?

2) is it registered as a single plot of land?

3) does it have/or could you get planning permission to develope (of course depending on what you wanted to do with it)?

4) does is flood out/swamp up in the rainy season (important if you have agriculture in mind)?

5) what is the value of surrounding land?

6) where is it - i.e. rural in in/near to developed/residential or commercial land?

............. all the above play a role in determining its value.

From a pure investment point of view? - my opinion: no, not at the moment - the Thai Baht as we speak is very strong - too strong in my humble opinion to justify using foreign exchange (i.e. Euro/U$D/Sterling etc etc ... assuming you would be bringing the capital in from overseas to complete the purchase ) for such a large/high value land purchases. It wouldn't suprize me if we saw another devaluation sometime over 2009 or early 2010 - last time that happened we saw the Baht nearly halve in value against Western currencies in less than a year. You'll be sick as hel_l if you purchase now and that happens sometime over the next 24 months.

And what if it doesn't happen? - I forsee a slow weakening over the same period time.

Note - I am expressing a personal opinion. I could be completely wrong, but its something I think you'd be well advised to take some professional advise on.

60rai 50km soth of nongbua for 2million

yes or no?

people in my area place paper bags or dark plastic bags on grapes to delay the ripness and this means they will have grape at a later time,

you tube link please

anyone have pictures of Nong Bua Lam Phu waterfalls, Udon will also work.

Thank you

just for the sake this is a true post and not......

phom = I for the male

kun = you

mai or mei has many meaning there is actually a sentence that goes mei mei mei mei mei?

now when said correctly it goes loke new wood burns goos ? or something like that depending on the use of tone.

and if you want so say do you understand you would say kao jay mei?krap/ka or just kao jai mei

in the Arabic language the use of tones is in a different way where it expresses the intention, question, remark answer.

so asking a question or answering it will be said exactly the same but in a different manner, when i started to learn thai that was a problem for me where i would drop the mei? in the end and get everything wrong. at the same time when it come to say different words such as mother and dog i will also get the tones mixed up. triggering laughter in the room.

helpful? not sure

must admit the thought has crossed my mind, but you must really compete with the big exporters, or sign a deal where they will buy your products off of you.

I have at agree with SAP,

this is to make the bigger companies even bigger, and again from previous forums about cassava in three years a person can generate a great big profit. but will also drop the pricing down for the small farmers forcing them i guess in directly to start growing food again.

should an economist be speaking or drawing graphs you will have the supply and demand graphins jumping right and left up and down.

I feel it this step is good to get the people to plant rice and food again. and with the price or rice going up, the farmers will get more money than before. and the drop in cassava ricing will not make this choice hard for them to convert back to farming food.

yes, it is more focused on the big boys to become bigger, but if we can rent some in the names of our wives, or who ever you trust in some cases not your wives, (this remark is placed for all the people that know themselves and their comments), we will be able to make profit as well as let the families around us enjoy better incomes, by generating work, when there is no work in the fields.

in my language we have a saying, bet in many languages as well, that says a sword with to sharp sides.

yes perfect for a price of a motor bike you get 2000rai

I was looking At the bangkok post and found the following article

http://www.bangkokpost.com/Business/20May2008_biz26.php

I think that is not a bad idea, to prevent people from converting their rice, food farms to generate more bio-fuels. I feel it is a step in the right direction. as long as it does not come on the account of old jungle trees, and rainforests

does anyone have a clue where those lands will be?

and if you stay on the land for so many years will it be given to the farmers?

I love it,

we do laab with it

somtam

there is this chicken and cabbage

kanamchin,

oh i do not know what else the wife uses it for, but i even brought some with me to the UAE, i have also a big jar fermenting now back home.

just looked up the kubota, there is harvester that looks like a very sweet machine, uh uh uh (from the comedy show home improvement )

http://www.siamkubota.co.th/en/products.aspx?cid=5

now that is rated at 8 rai, so o a good day (i guess) 6 rai will make you 4200B at your current expecting price not bad, even if half of the revenue has gone towards expenses and depreciation. though what else can it be used to harvest?

how long does it take to harvest one rai?

hmmm

how much does one harvester cost?

will it abe a good idea to buy one and rent it out in the harvest season?

same they do with the tractor

I wouldn't recommend growing rice. My wife refuses to grow it as she says it's too much hard work as it all has to be hand planted and harvested by hand. We usually let locals use our land during rainy season to grow rice and grow corn on it for the other half the year.

Mechanical harvesters are getting to be a dime a dozen in most areas and most times work out more efficient and cost effective than than hand cutting.

Can you rent out the mechanial harvesters by the hour?

if yes how much will one cost,

boring airport for my taste

The going rate for rice land in the Chiang Mai area is 100k-150kbhatt/rai....have been here and do occasionally hear of distress bargains, but the above is the going rate here.

and good to hear that digging the pond will be much lower...where is your pond, zied??

Nong bua lamphu

the pond is also quite expensive we kept the soil and paid 50,000 for one that is almost 1 rai and isaround 3 meters deep

well i guess that tis what i get because the ones i got supposedly their roots do not go deep, so in a way i guess genetically improved, they have also delivered them, to the land

oh i got screwed

i had to register the land in order for me to get it at one Baht cheaper.