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Thailand Encourages Rubber Farmers to Switch Crops - WSJ
Thailand Encourages Rubber Farmers to Switch Crops. Updated Aug. 12, 2014 9:44 a.m. ET The world's biggest grower and exporter of rubber, Thailand, wants to get a little smaller. The government plans to encourage farmers to chop down 350,000 rubber trees a year to stem a 60% slide in natural rubber prices over the past three years,...
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Thailand Encourages Rubber Farmers to Switch Crops
The world’s biggest grower and exporter of rubber, Thailand, wants to get a little smaller. The government plans to encourage farmers to chop down 350,000 rubber trees a year to stem a 60% slide in natural rubber prices over the past three years, and to use the land to produce palm oil instead.
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11 Interesting Facts about Thai Agriculture
Thailand is one of the world’s biggest producers and exporters of rubber. The country supplies around 40% of all the natural rubber in the world. Thai rubber is mainly used to produce tyres for aeroplanes and motor vehicles. Despite great demand, rubber prices are low, leaving many rubber farmers living in poor conditions.
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Economic Importance of Rubber in Thailand
The major purposes of the project are: To serve as the center for rubber and rubber products such as rubber innovations, concentrated latex, compound rubbers and others from midstream to downstream industries; To attract the investors to develop the rubber processing industries and value-added rubber products in Thailand; To encourage the employment and skills training by collaborating with the technical colleges at regional level; and To increase the domestic rubber consumption and the ...
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Overview of Contract Farming in Thailand: Lessons Learned
to encourage their full participation. In the long run, small farmers were able to accumulate production and management skills, thus improving their bargaining position. Together with improved infrastructure and a more competitive market due to farmers’ innovation, the farmers’ best choice may include non-contract production.
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Crop zoning has both supporters and ... - Thailand's news
Thailand needs to categorise farmers into four groups so that the government can select which group should be supported to continue growing rice, or to cultivate other crops. In the first category, about 900,000 households with an average of 70-90 rai for rice production in areas with irrigation and adequate rainfall should be encouraged to continue growing rice.
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PM orders rubber price probe - Bangkok Post
The administration also plans to encourage farmers to switch to other lucrative commodities such as palm oil, demand for which remains strong in both the food and biofuel industries.
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Masa depan komoditi karet – PT Nusantara Batulicin
“Malaysia plans to build rubberized roads from 2015 in a bid to boost domestic consumption and shore up battered prices of rubber, after a price-floor plan by major producing nations proved tough to implement among farmers desperate for cash.” (Nongkhai Central Rubber Market, Thursday, 16 October 2014).
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Thailand’s Weekend Farmers Plant Seed of Independence
BANGKOK – For some Thais, the capital city is just too much. Traffic jams, rainy-season floods and the general stress of day-to-day living in a city of 10 million people encourages many to ...
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Agriculture in Thailand
Agriculture in Thailand is highly competitive, diversified and specialized and its exports are very successful internationally. Rice is the country's most important crop, with some 60 percent of Thailand's 13 million farmers growing it on fully half of Thailand's cultivated land. Thailand is a major exporter in the world rice market. Rice exports in 2014 amounted to 1.3 percent of GDP.
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Thailand Encourages Rubber Farmers to Switch Crops - WSJ
Thailand, the world's biggest rubber producer, is encouraging rubber farmers to switch to palm oil after a steep multiyear decline in rubber prices.
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The world’s biggest grower and exporter of rubber, Thailand, wants to get a little smaller. The government plans to encourage farmers to chop down 350,000 rubber trees a year to stem a 60% slide in natural rubber prices over the past three years, and to use the land to produce palm oil instead.
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Thailand News: Thailand asks farmers to cut down rubber
BANGKOK -- Thailand, the world's largest rubber producer and exporter, has launched a program to encourage farmers to cut down rubber trees earlier than the 25-year life cycle to reduce total annual output by 5% by the end of April, in a bid to support falling rubber prices.
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Thailand asks farmers to cut down - Global Rubber Markets
BANGKOK — Thailand, the world\’s largest rubber producer and exporter, has launched a program to encourage farmers to cut down rubber trees earlier than the 25-year life cycle to reduce total annual output by 5% by the end of April, in a bid to support falling rubber prices.
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Thailand takes steps to help rubber farmers cope with low
Thailand's cabinet on Tuesday approved measures to help rubber farmers and stabilise falling prices, the country's prime minister said.
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Thailand's Protesting Rubber Farmers Reflect Deeper Social
Thailand is the world’s top exporter of natural rubber, but farmers complain weak global markets have hit them hard. Protesters have been demanding that the government guarantees prices of $3.7 per kg of “smoked rubber sheet” — around double the current local market price.
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Chapter 4. Agricultural Policy for Natural Rubber Farmers
Chapter 4 Agricultural Policy for Natural Rubber Farmers in Thailand. In this chapter, recent government policies on NR are studied, focusing on the replanting policy to control or reduce NR production, the establishment of the Rubber Authority of Thailand (RAOT) and the governments NR purchase policy (100,000 tons) to help support farmers incomes.
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Thai Rubber Farmers Protest Over Prices - WSJ
Roads and Rail Blockaded as Demonstrators Want Government Action to Buttress Their Incomes. BANGKOK—Rubber farmers in Thailand have blockaded roads and train tracks over the past week to pressure the government to guarantee a rubber price to bolster their incomes, as it has done for rice growers. Hundreds of rubber farmers began gathering last...
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