webfact Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 PM calls for overhaul of farming sector BANGKOK, 21 March 2017 (NNT) – The Prime Minister has called for an overhaul of the nation’s farming sector to remedy its long standing issues. Speaking at the fourth so-called mini-Cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-ocha stated that less obstacles and greater ease of work is needed for agricultural businesses. He commented that past attempts to elevate the sector have not sought to overhaul it in its entirety and have left rules and regulations that impede proper management and facilitation for industry members. He also pointed to long held dependence on state assistance and the pervasiveness of influential groups in the farming community, saying that only through cooperation by all sides can the government truly reform the nation’s agriculture. The meeting then proceeded to approve a plan to stabilize 5 key economic plants, which comprise rice, para-rubber, oil palm, tapioca and corn for animal feed. The move is to ensure their viability and production as they comprise a large part of the economy. Minister attached to the Prime Minister’s Office Suwit Mesinsee added afterward that younger officials have been drafted to meet with the new generation of industrial leaders and commercial tycoons and intake their views on the country’s future. -- nnt 2017-03-21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellowboat Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 4 hours ago, webfact said: The meeting then proceeded to approve a plan to stabilize 5 key economic plants, which comprise rice, para-rubber, oil palm, tapioca and corn for animal feed. The move is to ensure their viability and production as they comprise a large part of the economy. Not an expert on agriculture, but would think a broader plan would be necessary. When first usurping power, the PM rushed to talk to farmers about their shallot crop. Agriculture and its planning in Thailand has always been mystifying . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elgordo38 Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 6 hours ago, webfact said: Minister attached to the Prime Minister’s Office Suwit Mesinsee added afterward that younger officials have been drafted to meet with the new generation of industrial leaders and commercial tycoons and intake their views on the country’s future. Commercial tycoons hmm. Sounds like people that want to buy up farmland on the cheap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
11223344 Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 I always wonder why Isaan isn't high tech farming community with quality EU equipment? Considering how much $$$ £££ went there over the past 40? years... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
debate101 Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 Still waiting for the headline 'Farmers call for overhaul of country's governance." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chainarong Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 Until the farmers want to listen to new idea's and take notice of the younger guns ,it will remain a back water industry , that's why the younger people leave the country and go into the cities , quite a few have done their Degree in agriculture but granddad wont listen and father listens to granddad......................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOUTHERNSTAR Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 To change the farming sector you need to get everyone together at local level, then regional level and then national level. Then you must duct tape a small man in camo that he cant talk and are forced to listen to others. For any change to succeed you need input from farmers, government, exporters and industries. Before you can tell farmers to plant specific crops there need to be done specific studies regarding suitability, input supply chain, transfer of knowledge, infrastructure needed and marketing. It takes years to put such a plan into action. Yet some people believe their magic wand (S44) can fix everything by decree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfd101 Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 1 hour ago, 11223344 said: I always wonder why Isaan isn't high tech farming community with quality EU equipment? Considering how much $$$ £££ went there over the past 40? years... And into whose pockets do you imagine such monies as there were actually went? Certainly not to the poor subsistence farmers who are probably 90% of all the farmers of Thailand ... with no capital for investment, barely enough to feed themselves, and mostly illiterate & passive because of generations of appropriate education (ie none) designed to produce passivity & obedience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fish monger Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 I suppose the farming sector is easier to 'reform' than the TAT, TSM, BIB, RTP, Immigration, pollution.....on land, the beaches and AIR. Road fatalities, just to name a few other situations. I think the farmers have been able to figure things out for themselves for the past few hundred years..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonmarleesco Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 Economic plants? Economic in what way? Or does he (it) mean vital to the economy? Certainly it is past time that rice became less of a central plank of the Thai economy. Far too many rice farmers, not enough consumers, and too much competition, irrespective of whether they truly think that Thai rice doesn't have any competition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elgordo38 Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 4 hours ago, 11223344 said: I always wonder why Isaan isn't high tech farming community with quality EU equipment? Considering how much $$$ £££ went there over the past 40? years... Your last statement seems to infer that investment went into another crop. Hmmm let me guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fruitman Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 3 hours ago, SOUTHERNSTAR said: To change the farming sector you need to get everyone together at local level, then regional level and then national level. Then you must duct tape a small man in camo that he cant talk and are forced to listen to others. For any change to succeed you need input from farmers, government, exporters and industries. Before you can tell farmers to plant specific crops there need to be done specific studies regarding suitability, input supply chain, transfer of knowledge, infrastructure needed and marketing. It takes years to put such a plan into action. Yet some people believe their magic wand (S44) can fix everything by decree. They do that already for many years on the royal project farms...the produce is sold in shops in bkk and cheaper/better than anything in the supermarkets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAG Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 Economic plants? Economic in what way? Or does he (it) mean vital to the economy? Certainly it is past time that rice became less of a central plank of the Thai economy. Far too many rice farmers, not enough consumers, and too much competition, irrespective of whether they truly think that Thai rice doesn't have any competition.A very large proportion of the farming activity away from the central Chao Praya River basin is essentially subsistence farming. Small family owned plots growing rice for their own consumption. Certainly any surplus is sold, but the main effort is to provide food for the extended family. Rice is the staple of the diet, that is why it is the universal crop. Where cash crops are grown the farmers are almost always at the mercy of the agricultural middle men. That is perhaps where some effective reform would help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
11223344 Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 4 hours ago, mfd101 said: And into whose pockets do you imagine such monies as there were actually went? Certainly not to the poor subsistence farmers who are probably 90% of all the farmers of Thailand ... with no capital for investment, barely enough to feed themselves, and mostly illiterate & passive because of generations of appropriate education (ie none) designed to produce passivity & obedience. I always imagined the money flow is Farang -> Hooker -> "Poor farmer family" So the billions over 40+ years goes from "Poor farmer families" where? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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