150,000 tons of Thai rice sold to Hong Kong during trip headed by commerce minister

BANGKOK, 15 April 2016 (NNT) - The Ministry of Commerce has announced success in selling as high as 150,000 tons of rice during a trip in which it led Thai businessmen to Hong Kong. The trip was aimed at expanding the market of Thai rice and fruits in Hong Kong.

Minister of Commerce Apiradi Tantraporn who led the trip met with her Hong Kong counterpart to discuss Thailand’s durian exports to Hong Kong. Last year, more than 50% of Thai durian exports worth six billion baht were to Hong Kong.

In the past, Hong Kong found that some Thai durians were coated with turmeric and contaminated.

The minister said Thailand and Hong Kong agreed to work closely together to tackle the problem of contaminated Thai durian exports. No turmeric-coated durians from Thailand were found in markets in Hong Kong during this period, she said.

The minister also warned Thai durian exporters to conform to Hong Kong’s regulations for fresh fruit and vegetable exports.


-- NNT 2016-04-15

So how is it going, with the run-down of the government-warehouse stocks of 'classic' Yingluck-era rice ?

Funny how nobody is publishing those figures ... a cynic might suspect that it's slowly being consumed here in Thailand !

Probably 150,000 tons consumed here and this is just a cover up story.

The deal was 150,000 tons for 120 million USD or about $800/tn or about 27,200 Bt/tn @ Bt34=1 USD

In the first half of 2015 Thai export of Hom Mali fragrant rice was selling for about 23,800bt/tn.

So the rice sold to HK must have been 100% Hom Mali fragrant rice?

Probably 150,000 tons consumed here and this is just a cover up story.

I suspect that if you did a little research you may find that you are wrong.

Don't let these links get in your way though. They must all be telling lies.

http://www.pattayamail.com/thailandnews/150-000-tons-of-thai-rice-sold-to-hong-kong-57677

http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/content/158585

http://thainews.prd.go.th/CenterWeb/NewsEN/NewsDetail?NT01_NewsID=WNECO5904150010002

http://reap.com.pk/news/news_detail.asp?newsid=3666

http://www.thairiceexporters.or.th/global%20news.html