Thailand, Montenegro to expand cooperation on agriculture, tourism

[Baerboxer]

Everywhere she goes she says she wants them to be a logistics channel and partner for Thai goods. Why on earth would anyone pick Poland and Montenegro to try and distribute their goods into Europe? Neither are noted for any skills in this area. Surprising she never asked the Pope if they could distribute through the Vatican - bet they've an interest in rubber products !

Same meaningless scripts for public consumption. Many PTP supporters will have no idea about the countries she visits and will believe the clap trap.

Wonder what's going on behind the scenes?

[phetphet]

Very handy for moving money.

[timewilltell]

Have I had too much wine or is it just me seeing the bleeding obvious connections between Thakein and his sister visiting this out of the way place. There must be thousands with the cash to visit so should really boost the tourist trade. My goodness this family is the worst.

[Pimay1]

I found this on Wikipedia about Montenegro

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montenegro

The economy of Montenegro is mostly service-based and is in late transition to a market economy. According to the International Monetary Fund, the nominal GDP of Montenegro was $4.114 billion in 2009. The GDP PPP for 2009 was $6.590 billion, or $10,527 per capita.^[27]

GDP grew at an impressive 10.7% in 2007 and 7.5% in 2008.^[27] The country entered a recession in 2008 as a part of the global recession, with GDP contracting by 4%. However, Montenegro remained a target for foreign investment, the only country in the Balkans to increase its amount of direct foreign investment.^[28] The country is expected to exit the recession in mid-2010, with GDP growth predicted at around 0.5%.^[29] However, the significant dependence of the Montenegrin economy on foreign direct investment leaves it susceptible to external shocks and a high export/import trade deficit.

In 2007, the service sector made up for 72.4% of GDP, with industry and agriculture making up the rest at 17.6% and 10%, respectively.^[30] There are 50,000 farming households in Montenegro that rely on agriculture to fill the family budget.^[31]

According to Eurostat data, the Montenegrin GDP per capita stood at 41% of the EU average in 2010.^[32]

Aluminum and steel production and agricultural processing make up for most of the industrial output.

Tourism is an important contributor to the Montenegrin economy. Approximately one million tourists visited Montenegro in 2007, resulting in €480 million of tourism revenue. Tourism is considered the backbone of future economic growth, and government expenditures on infrastructure improvements are largely targeted towards that goal.

There is more than that and the ethnic structure shows the breakdown of the population in 2011 as

2011 625,266 +0.8%

It seems a very unlikely trading partner for Thailand.

About as likely as land locked Kazakhstan. As always with the PTP there is some kind of "unseen hand" ulterior motive in everything they do.

[jeff2258]

Wonder what they going to cooperate with on agriculture ? Very different climates and enviroment .

Do rubber trees and rice grow in Montenegro ?

They can import agriculture products from Thailand and that is one way the cooperation will be. Think before asking stupid questions.

[Ricardo]

Perhaps Thailand should build a High-Speed railway-line, to all these new logistics & distribution channels, in central-Asia & eastern-Europe ?

[attento]

So how many tourists from Montenegro. Come to Thailand?

maybe both of them .........

The entire population of Montenegro is less than a tenth of BKK. Their capital city is little more than half the size of CM.

A beautiful little country, but hardly a significant trading partner.

[tomyummer]

I think we can use Montenegro for rice storage.

[billd766]

Wonder what they going to cooperate with on agriculture ? Very different climates and enviroment .

Do rubber trees and rice grow in Montenegro ?

They can import agriculture products from Thailand and that is one way the cooperation will be. Think before asking stupid questions.

How much agriculture products can a country with a population of 625,266 people import?

If they import only 100kg of rice per head that would come to 62,500 tons of rice a year form an estimated stock pile in Thailand of anywhere between 17 and 25,000,000 TONS of rice.

Tourists from Montenegro totalled 211 in 2001. How many genuine Thai tourists went there?

Think before giving stupid answers.