Quote Originally Posted by poorfalang
farmers want more money for their product, sugar cane has been going up year by years for the last 10 years if anything it may stop increasing, with rice, you are getting about 5-7 thousand baht per rai. badly taken care of sugar cane is giving farmers 13.000 per rai, when will rice beat that?
Big problem as I don't believe you can plant sugar cane on rice fields. That's why they usually only plant rice there. Where I live, between rice planting and harvest, they are trying other crops such as melon and squashes. Sugar cane no.