snoop1130 Posted June 7, 2017 Share Posted June 7, 2017 PM wants Thailand to become food industry ‘superpower’ in 20 years By The Nation Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha vowed to make the country a food industry “superpower” in the next 20 years with a new strategy. Prayut visited Chanthaburi on Wednesday to inspect the government’s initiatives, including reforms in agricultural cooperatives and fruit production, at the Fruitfital Fair 2017. Chanthaburi is one of the country’s major fruit production areas. He said Thailand may not be able to become a military superpower but it’s possible for the country to become a superpower in the food industry in the next 20 years. The premier said earlier during the trip that the government had been supporting farmers and fruit growers to stand on their own feet, by not just inflating farm product prices which is not sustainable in the long run. They should be able to develop and produce their products with improved quality so that they can compete in the market in the long run, he said. Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/national/30317448 -- © Copyright The Nation 2017-6-7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SABloke Posted June 7, 2017 Share Posted June 7, 2017 Well, he'll probably need to oversee the whole process so....elections 2037? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCC1701A Posted June 7, 2017 Share Posted June 7, 2017 (edited) maybe some of this could happen in 10 years if you don't buy those stupid submarines and use the money for... oh never mind. Edited June 7, 2017 by NCC1701A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clockman Posted June 7, 2017 Share Posted June 7, 2017 With help from Monsanto? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puwa Posted June 7, 2017 Share Posted June 7, 2017 In theory it might be possible, and at least it uses Thailand's competitive advantage. But to actually benefit Thai people, not just the GNP, would require land reform and much better regulation of fertilizers and pesticides. Otherwise it will go into a contract-farming system in which farmers destroy their own soil in a few years and the corporations move on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tifino Posted June 7, 2017 Share Posted June 7, 2017 It won't be tooo long, with Chinese help, they'll be able to provide even cheaper fake eggs and plastic rice which won't really need any extra land cleared Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wakeupplease Posted June 7, 2017 Share Posted June 7, 2017 may not be able to become a military superpower but it’s possible for the country to become a superpower in the food Great expectations and he admits one thing a military superpower is not on the cards ever, but looks like his plan is to be around for 20 years It will all end in tears one day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuckamuck Posted June 7, 2017 Share Posted June 7, 2017 Sure, food superpower sounds good, but it might lead to cold food war. And if the Italians allied with the French, the Thais would need to make an alliance with Japan; which would insult the Chinese. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracker1 Posted June 7, 2017 Share Posted June 7, 2017 What happens if his not Prime Minister in 20 years time ? oh forget it silly question ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikke Posted June 7, 2017 Share Posted June 7, 2017 What A Joke, the Thai FDA need to be reformed at first..... They have no clue about food and food safety at all so its not possible to grow a country food industry with the current FDA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wakeupplease Posted June 7, 2017 Share Posted June 7, 2017 21 minutes ago, ikke said: What A Joke, the Thai FDA need to be reformed at first..... They have no clue about food and food safety at all so its not possible to grow a country food industry with the current FDA. How many street or even normal restaurants would pass a UK or USA food safety hygiene test? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoilSpoil Posted June 7, 2017 Share Posted June 7, 2017 Ive been telling for ages that anything grows here and grows fast, so there's an enormous potential to become 'the kitchen of the world'. But the way its now is that most land is used for rice and animal feed (corn). Very low value crops Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anon4546543 Posted June 7, 2017 Share Posted June 7, 2017 I live in Prachinburi province. Stick a plant, a twig, a tree branch in the ground and it grows. Fast. That is already taken as fact. The thing is to co ordinate farmers without money grabbing companies that rip farmers off. Like my wife and I. lol But the rice scheme of someone who cannot be named ripped off the farmers and sent them into huge debt. Farmers are doing fine now on their own. Anyone suggests a new plan and farmers know that they will be ripped off again and again. And again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cadbury Posted June 7, 2017 Share Posted June 7, 2017 2 hours ago, snoop1130 said: Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha vowed to make the country a food industry “superpower” in the next 20 years This has a familiar 20 year ring to it. Wasn't it some little time ago that the Great Master announced he was going to eliminate corruption in Thailand in 20 years? And I seem to recall one of his dunces said that prostitution would be abolished within 20 years. I have a sneaky suspicion Thailand might become the "superpower" of gambling within the next 20 years. Looking at the derelict rice paddies I saw in the NE just a month ago doesn't equate to being the "superpower" of food. I think he needs to get out more rather than parading in front of cameras. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redvic Posted June 7, 2017 Share Posted June 7, 2017 This man is a total ?End Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anon4546543 Posted June 7, 2017 Share Posted June 7, 2017 4 hours ago, Cadbury said: This has a familiar 20 year ring to it. Wasn't it some little time ago that the Great Master announced he was going to eliminate corruption in Thailand in 20 years? And I seem to recall one of his dunces said that prostitution would be abolished within 20 years. I have a sneaky suspicion Thailand might become the "superpower" of gambling within the next 20 years. Looking at the derelict rice paddies I saw in the NE just a month ago doesn't equate to being the "superpower" of food. I think he needs to get out more rather than parading in front of cameras. Those derelict rice paddies rely on rain, constant rain. They possibly have it now, at least they do in Prachinburi where the buffalo are not munching the grass in these paddies anymore. They are locked up and fed dry fodder previously harvested. Constant rain means the paddies become viable. The other crop is tapioca, also plantings are in full swing. I think you need to get out more to understand a few basics of agriculture. Your post is not only ill informed and possibly supremist, it is a post lacking in true facts and to be frank. Quire dumb. Misspelling are deliberate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chip Allen Posted June 7, 2017 Share Posted June 7, 2017 And the Thai language will become the standard by which all others are judged. Wasn't this a Prayut Prediction fairly recently?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anon4546543 Posted June 7, 2017 Share Posted June 7, 2017 46 minutes ago, Chip Allen said: And the Thai language will become the standard by which all others are judged. Wasn't this a Prayut Prediction fairly recently?? What orifice did you pull that comment out of? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davehowden Posted June 7, 2017 Share Posted June 7, 2017 "I put my right hand in, I put my right hand out, In out, in out shake it all about, Oh the Hokey Cokey .........." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobmac10 Posted June 8, 2017 Share Posted June 8, 2017 Put it on the list Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YetAnother Posted June 8, 2017 Share Posted June 8, 2017 bet that guy Wants a lot of things Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Lawrence Posted June 8, 2017 Share Posted June 8, 2017 Good to have an idea, but need infrastructure to make it happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maewang99 Posted June 8, 2017 Share Posted June 8, 2017 (edited) guess he wasn't put off by all of the "stuff"....... such as the main scenario in Oliver Morton's Planet Remade. good.... he knows stuff we don't.... I'm a nervous type... maybe it's on the timeline... that would work for me as I'm 60 something... as well as a Boy Scout motto guy. you do know? the why.... of the why 1.5 AND 2.0 were absolutely essential, politically, for the Paris agreement...... (with or without Trump's later pulling the US national government out). you'all know? right? and the PM too. right? Edited June 8, 2017 by maewang99 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cadbury Posted June 8, 2017 Share Posted June 8, 2017 5 hours ago, spiderorchid said: Those derelict rice paddies rely on rain, constant rain. They possibly have it now, at least they do in Prachinburi where the buffalo are not munching the grass in these paddies anymore. They are locked up and fed dry fodder previously harvested. Constant rain means the paddies become viable. The other crop is tapioca, also plantings are in full swing. I think you need to get out more to understand a few basics of agriculture. Your post is not only ill informed and possibly supremist, it is a post lacking in true facts and to be frank. Quire dumb. Misspelling are deliberate If you had bother to read my post properly you would have noticed I was referring to the North East area and not your beloved Pranchinburi area. But I guess reading gets a bit difficult at 2 am in the morning after a few too many cordials. I read where Pranchinburi is becoming more a deepwater rice growing area whereas east of Udon has areas where there are constraints of rainfall variability, drought, submergence, and low soil fertility. I have eyes when I travel about the country east of Udon Thani and I see more rice paddies lying fallow, uncultivated and unused than those paddies which are growing rice. You obviously have not been in the area I refer to so how would you know. Get off your Pranchinburi bar stool and go there and see for yourself. In any case the main subject of my contribution was more to do with the bizarre 20 year predictions of the PM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFishman1 Posted June 8, 2017 Share Posted June 8, 2017 And I want a turkey pot pie TIT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williamgeorgeallen Posted June 8, 2017 Share Posted June 8, 2017 20 years time i hope someone remembers he said this. only 4 coups away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digger70 Posted June 8, 2017 Share Posted June 8, 2017 13 hours ago, spiderorchid said: I live in Prachinburi province. Stick a plant, a twig, a tree branch in the ground and it grows. Fast. That is already taken as fact. The thing is to co ordinate farmers without money grabbing companies that rip farmers off. Like my wife and I. lol But the rice scheme of someone who cannot be named ripped off the farmers and sent them into huge debt. Farmers are doing fine now on their own. Anyone suggests a new plan and farmers know that they will be ripped off again and again. And again We live in the province of Songkhla,The only thing that grows well is a Rubber tree ,everything else grows a little and Dies.The soil is infected with so many infectious diseases even a papaya tree and a banana tree and a climbing bean get sick and die. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sawadee1947 Posted June 8, 2017 Share Posted June 8, 2017 He might promise, vow, demand...whatever.........all parts of fairy tales... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sawadee1947 Posted June 8, 2017 Share Posted June 8, 2017 he wants.......I want too many things. 20 years is a long time. He might have passed away already. That's why he can show people a lovely future. Sure, any time without him would be a lovely time. Or am I dreaming??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fish monger Posted June 8, 2017 Share Posted June 8, 2017 OMG, when will the hallucinations ever end.....! He doesn't have a clue that he is competing with California, Florida, The Mid Atlantic and the rest of the world. Please explain to Banana Man that, Thailand is only four fifths the size of Texas...!!!!! FACT...! 20 years...? 5555. Expect the city to be moved to Northern Phitsanulok, it will be swamped...AGAIN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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