Perhaps one side-effect of storing unwanted-rice in aircraft-hangars might be, to generate a new revenue-stream for Thai Airways, and get them back into profit ? Solving two problems at a single stroke !

Or at least update their in flight menu.

Flight attendant comes and offers the menu:

"Well there's egg and bacon; egg, sausage and bacon; egg and rice; egg, bacon and rice; egg, bacon, sausage and rice; rice, bacon, sausage and rice; rice, egg, rice, rice, bacon and rice; rice, rice, rice, egg and rice; rice, rice, rice, rice, rice, rice, baked beans, rice, rice, rice and rice; or lobster thermidor aux crevettes, with a mornay sauce garnished with truffle paté, brandy and a fried egg on top and rice."

Vikings come down from the overhead compartments.

I wonder if there will be a reserve price for the bidding, or will it just be the highest bid takes it? Either way, I can't see the bidding going over the government's cost for purchasing the rice.

I also suspect that the real reason the govt. is being so cagey about the g to g rice deals is that they don't want to reveal how big a loss they are taking on those deals!

No sh*t Sherlock!

Edited October 13, 201213 yr by AleG

here is an idea,

Stop implementing plans and schemes and sell rice at fair market price

I agree with your statement about fair market price but other things may be in play here. Going back at least 6-9 months ago on a Thai-English news program it was stated that two businesses (famiies) were responsible for over 60% of Thailands rice exports'. if someone could find a figure for total exports we would be able to calculate roughly how many billion dollars these two familys are making in profit. It helps if you keep in Ámart Mode''' and Thaksins desire to crush it and create his own Amart.

Who says they will auction the rice stockpile to one of the 35 families who have been controlling Thailand rice prices for decades and effectively keeping 20,000,000 in the poor house.. To do away with poverty we either have to allow more people into the game, increasing the 35 to effectively 100s or keep buying the rice until the 35 go out of business and then allow others to join the game with effective regulation about payments to farmers.

Look at my post #3 the numbers you are looking for are there.

If the government stores all its rice in the cargos, where are all the passenger's bags be stored???

If the government stores all its rice in the cargos, where are all the passenger's bags be stored???

If the said government continue to treat Europeans(mostly) like necessary evils, there will soon be no bags to store, seemingly high-end tourists from Asia are a priority now, and sod the early settlers-backpackers-and investors, grag what you can Thais, never mind long term.

Why don't they consider tinning it & selling it as SCAM

This latest circus should make The Great Longan Scandal look like a misdemeanour. I was in fits of laughter after it was discovered that the 3 year yield of longan which was to be swapped for some Chinese locomotives just didn't exist or had been flogged off already. Thailand - never a dull moment.

Maybe this is a great money spinner for expats. Get a warehouse by renting, or building on gf/wife's land then rent it for rice storage. That's assuming of course that the politicians that came up with this scheme haven't thought of this already.

I am not sure whether this is good or bad in terms of predicting the likelihood of flooding.

Now I know why they've build that huge flood-wall all around Don Meuang!!

-mel

Rats are gonna have a field day with this one.

Are you referring to the rodents or the politicians?

What is the difference??????????

Have they good flood insurance on the rice....looks like a winner to me if they do.

The rice bags can be used instead of sand bags when the run off reaches DMK.

Cheaper than sand last year, IIRC.

Edited October 14, 201213 yr by Payboy

Rats are gonna have a field day with this one.

Are you referring to the rodents or the politicians?

What is the difference??????????

Rodents try to avoid pussies.

Meow!

Edited October 14, 201213 yr by bigbamboo

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Luckily the rany season is almost finished and wintertime might be better for rice storage