Commerce Ministry ready to withdraw sugar from controlled product list

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Commerce Minister Phumtham Wechayachai has assured representatives of sugarcane growers that his ministry is ready to remove sugar from the list of price-controlled products, if there is consent from all stakeholders.

 

The Central Committee on the Prices of Goods and Services (CCPGS) has issued an announcement adding sugar to the list of controlled products, after the Sugar and Sugarcane Committee decided to increase the ex-refinery prices of white and pure white sugar, for the 2023-24 harvest, by 4 baht/kg, from 19 baht and 20 baht/kg respectively, effective from November 2nd.

 

The announcement by the CCPGS has prompted about 50 sugarcane millers to threaten to suspend operations in protest.

 

File photo : Commerce Minister Phumtham Wechayachai

 

Full story: Thai PBS 2023-11-03

 

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[hotchilli]

They need to sweeten the pill.

[Cake Monster]

Sugar should be added to a controlled substance list

Its more deadly and costly to Society than Cocaine

[digger70]

4 hours ago, Cake Monster said:

Sugar should be added to a controlled substance list

Its more deadly and costly to Society than Cocaine

Nothing wrong with sugar in a normal Diet.

How much sugar is dangerous per day?

The AHA suggests a stricter added-sugar limit of no more than 100 calories per day (about 6 teaspoons or 24 grams) for most adult women and no more than 150 calories per day (about 9 teaspoons or 36 grams of sugar) for most men.

[jacko45k]

22 hours ago, Cake Monster said:

Sugar should be added to a controlled substance list

Its more deadly and costly to Society than Cocaine

Haha, who are you baiting?

[kickstart]

That is true about suspending operations wife's granddaughter's husband works at our local sugar mill they are talking about suspending operations, good job they are no lamp post near the mill as the mill owners will be swinging from them, they are a thousand plus growers that send they sugar cane to that mill, 2 million tons last year, they will make shore of that, sugar cane is a high input crop a lot of money is at stake, it will not happen

Also, our local CL supermarket is limiting sugar to 3 bags per customers they price is no more than anywhere else.

They is a world sugar shortage Thailand is one of the biggest exporters of sugar, are they exporting a lot of sugar and leaving the home market short??