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Thai farmers worry as Chinese-Laos high speed trains bring competing produce from China


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By Erich Parpart

 

Thai farmers and farm cooperatives are calling for the government to conduct diplomatic talks with China to solve the increase of non-tariff barriers on Thai fresh food products.

 

Fresh products from China are also flooding the country via the China-Laos rail way but Thai traders cannot send anything.

 

“The current situation is the worst its been in 20 years,” Sunchai Puranachaikere, The President of Thai Fresh Fruit Traders and Exporters Association, told Thai Enquirer on Monday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaienquirer.com/35767/thai-farmers-worry-as-chinese-laos-high-speed-trains-bring-competing-produce-from-china/

 

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1 hour ago, spidermike007 said:

China is the ultimate one way street. Everything goes out. Little comes in without the participation of the heinous CCP. We need to figure out a way to just say NO! 

I would rather see prices fall in competition, instead of the just the Thai price.

Just wondering though if Thais will but the produce at wholesale markets and jack-up the price?

How will Chinese keeps the price reduction all the way to the street?

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Come on...U got be kidding me.  The Chinese shell out BIG Baht for a high speed train, and then You think they want underprice their imported wares in competition with Thai and Lao goods.   Just because their Belt and Hose-job  initiative has raped multiple poverty stricken Countries, the Thai farmers would think that the Chinese would do the same to them?

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5 hours ago, ezzra said:

The more the merrier i say, now when i go to the local open markets fresh produce have gone up and you ask why and the answer is Covid Covid, so let the competition begin...

Competition within any sector of Industry is really good.

The best will always rise to the top, and give consumers what they need at a realistic price, and often with added value.

The prices on Veggies rise every Year about this time, just as Tourists arrive ( historically ), but this Year the Tourists are not in Thailand in any great number, so therefore the Market is smaller and more competitive.

The Thai Farmers need to get into the real world, and start producing at realistic costs to remain in the game, and not to just plant and forget.

 

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7 minutes ago, Cake Monster said:

Competition within any sector of Industry is really good.

The best will always rise to the top, and give consumers what they need at a realistic price, and often with added value.

The prices on Veggies rise every Year about this time, just as Tourists arrive ( historically ), but this Year the Tourists are not in Thailand in any great number, so therefore the Market is smaller and more competitive.

The Thai Farmers need to get into the real world, and start producing at realistic costs to remain in the game, and not to just plant and forget.

 

The cheapest usually becomes the most popular and prominent .

   Which means a decline in profits for farmers , some farmers in Thailand now just about break even and some have even stopped farming due to it being non profitable

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2 hours ago, connda said:

Well farmers.  Get your foot-dragging government to complete their end of the HS rail line and then you can flood China and other BRI connection points with your products.

You must be kidding. There will surely be some quality issue that blocks competing imports.  

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