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Thailand's Growing Rice Predicament

Thailand's Growing Rice Predicament

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Sep 05, 2012
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The dimensions of Thailand’s rice dilemma started to come clear earlier this week when the government put 763,856 tonnes of rice on the market at an average of US$547 per tonne but sold less than a third of what it put up for auction -- 232,000 tonnes. What started as an economic miscue looks increasingly like turning into a political predicament.

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