Officials split on Chinese banana farms

[webfact]

Officials split on Chinese banana farms
By PRATCH RUJIVANAROM, 
AYUTAI NONNITIRAT 
THE NATION

 

 

Ministry and NHRC divided on use of chemicals despite Lao govt closures

 

BANGKOK: -- THAI authorities have said that Chinese-owned banana plantations will be allowed to operate in Chiang Rai despite the government of Laos banning similar farms over serious environmental concerns. 

But the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has disclosed that tests conducted on samples from a plantation in Chiang Rai all found contamination and the chemicals used can cause health problems for workers in the long term. 

Laos recently ordered all Chinese-owned banana plantations to stop operating after finding that Chinese owners had |conspired with local officials to import dangerous chemicals for use on the farms. 

 

Full story: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/national/30299507

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2016-11-09

[MaxLee]

This is Thailand, where profit and corruption is more important than human lives and safety

 

This is Thailand.... not Laos,....  says it all, folks

 

 

[trogers]

Concern is not only on plantation workers, but contamination of soil and ground water that would spread beyond the plantation...

[fruitman]

If the Thai can't organise big farms themselves the Chinese will do it...

[bokningar]

REALLY so now Lao is better then Thailand????  

 

This is quite sad when you think about it 

[trogers]

2 minutes ago, bokningar said:

REALLY so now Lao is better then Thailand????  

 

This is quite sad when you think about it 

 

Easier to govern when you don't need to buy votes...

[bokningar]

Just now, trogers said:

 

Easier to govern when you don't need to buy votes...

So Chines people coming to Thailand to spray poison all over the land can vote here now?

It is bad enough they can com.

This is REALLY bad news 

 

[trogers]

11 minutes ago, bokningar said:

So Chines people coming to Thailand to spray poison all over the land can vote here now?

It is bad enough they can com.

This is REALLY bad news 

 

 

I believe the poison part has not reached the top honchos in Bangkok. Wait for it.

 

A side note: I only buy those small bananas, called 'fingers' in Thai. The Chinese loves the large fruits, be it bananas, water melons or garlic...

[cnx355]

2 hours ago, bokningar said:

REALLY so now Lao is better then Thailand????  

 

This is quite sad when you think about it 

Or maybe the Chinese greased the wrong wheels in Laos....

[Srikcir]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Chinese-owned banana plantations

Owned by Chinese nationals or by Thais with Chinese ancestory?

If the former, how is that done as foreigners cannot own Thai land?

If the latter then it's "Thai-owned"

[monkey4u]

Don't pick on the Chinese, they need the bananas to load on their high speed trains going to China

No one else will use them