Banglamung runs market to bail out pineapple farmers who refuse to cut production

[Rimmer]

Banglamung runs market to bail out pineapple farmers who refuse to cut production

PATTAYA:--As pineapple farmers continue to flood the market and push prices for their crop through the floor, Banglamung District continues to prop them up.

 

Chonburi Deputy Gov. Thammasak Rattanathanya was on hand Dec. 18 for another last-ditch market to bail out growers in front of the Banglamung office. The Dec. 15-24 market promoted sales of Sriracha pineapples, a popular variety rich in juice and meat grown in Chonburi and Rayong. Two similar campaigns have been run in the past year.

 

Pineapple farmers nationwide have struggled all year as prices for the country’s signature fruit have plummeted due to oversupply. Many farmers have been unable to sell their crops, leading many to donate them to animal farms or drop them in the jungle for wild animals.

 

Rayong and Chonburi are the fourth- and fifth-largest pineapple-growing provinces in the country, respectively.

 

Thammasak said Chonburi has 23,580 rai of pineapple farms that produced 144,144 tons this year. But farmers have ignored government directives to cut back on their growing and have caused the problems they now suffer.

 

Preamanee Subchokechai, director of the Chonburi Provincial Commerce Department said officials have turned to processing factories, ordering them to scale back production to arrest the price fall.

 

 

-- © Copyright Pattaya Mail 2018-12-28

 

 

[Justgrazing]

13 minutes ago, Rimmer said:

The Dec. 15-24 market promoted sales of Sriracha pineapples, a popular variety rich in juice and meat 

Meat .! What is this meat .. There'll uproar in the Vegetarian community when this gets out and I trust they were humanely stunned before being cut down .. 

[Phuketshrew]

30 minutes ago, Justgrazing said:

Meat .! What is this meat

Yes, I think that "flesh" sounds much better ????

[edwinchester]

For some reason alot of farmers here fail to understand that if they all grow the same thing prices fall come harvest time.

[marko kok prong]

easy to grow i guess.

[Nyezhov]

Wonder why my  fruit dude is still charging 20 baht for a bag? No wonder he is so happy when he sees me!

[digger70]

It's the same with every crop the farmers grow ,,, if the price goes up everyone grows it if the price goes down due to oversupply they cry like babies and want help,, their own bloody fault ,grow a bit less and grow some different crops , this happens in many countries 

[Justgrazing]

4 hours ago, Phuketshrew said:

Yes, I think that "flesh" sounds much better ????

Indeed Sir .. For me " meat " implies that at some time it had at least 2 leg's and either clucked , quacked , gobbled , oinked , moo'ed or neighed ( if you're French ) before meeting ( sorry I had to get that one in ) it's maker .. There's probably a few more you could add to that but I'm fairly non adventurous with my meat .. So to speak .. 

[Phuketshrew]

1 hour ago, Justgrazing said:

Indeed Sir .. For me " meat " implies that at some time it had at least 2 leg's and either clucked , quacked , gobbled , oinked , moo'ed or neighed ( if you're French ) before meeting ( sorry I had to get that one in ) it's maker .. There's probably a few more you could add to that but I'm fairly non adventurous with my meat .. So to speak .. 

Getting me all flustered now mentioning gobbled when I suggested flesh ????

[rickudon]

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Thammasak said Chonburi has 23,580 rai of pineapple farms that produced 144,144 tons this year. But farmers have ignored government directives to cut back on their growing and have caused the problems they now suffer.

 

Preamanee Subchokechai, director of the Chonburi Provincial Commerce Department said officials have turned to processing factories, ordering them to scale back production to arrest the price fall.

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Two points here. First, Pineapple plants take a long time to fruit. You plan your production 2, 3 years ahead. Do you expect a farmer to plough up plants he has nurtured for months or even years?

Secondly. telling processing factories to scale back production is stupid. They should INCREASE production to stop wholesale prices falling, using up some of the surplus. Particularly juice or canning.

[Cadbury]

With an election coming up and the PM being the "farmer's friend" he is sure to come up with another of his magic solutions and bail them out; at least until the end of February. A little frog kissing might also be helpful.

[ivor bigun]

Bought some yesterday and today ,very nice to,they are there every year,nice and cheap

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[LennyW]

Selling at 100 Baht for 20 Kilos at the side of the road all along 331, still better than the 20 - 50 Satang per pineapple they get from the canners, not the farmers fault!!

[mikebell]

20 hours ago, edwinchester said:

For some reason alot of farmers here fail to understand that if they all grow the same thing prices fall come harvest time.

It's the Thai idea of commerce.  If a laundry looks to be doing well, they open another one next door.  The same number of customers now divided by two; then three; then.... fast forward to bankruptcy.