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• Currently market price of rice is 6,000 baht per ton but the production cost of rice farm is high, 5,400-6,000 baht per rai. Therefore, farmers in San Sai district diverse to other crops: potato (during rainy season), rice or corn (in dry season), vegetable, and cabbage. • With rice pledge policy, rice farmer planted two crops a year. He got about 200,000 baht from the main crop but without the rice pledge he got only 70,000-80,000 baht a crop, about 40 % down. Production cost per rai: • Plough machine service 900 baht • Labor cost for planting/harvesting 1,200 baht • Fertilizer/weed control chemical/seed 4,000-5,000 baht Totally 6,100-7,100 baht per rai • The government should, at least, set a minimum price for rice, replacing the rice pledge. Farmers never ever set up market prices, it’s rice exporters who take this role and suppress domestic rice price to keep Thai rice prices low in the world market. • He was upset to hear PM made an interview in TV “Why (you) grow too much, (you) should grow only for consumption”. If the government fails to subsidize rice prices, prices will eventually dive to the bottom like 50 years ago.
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