Quote Originally Posted by Seekingasylum View Post
Thai rubber stockpiles entering the market and competing with increased production from Vietnam, Laos, Burma and Cambodia is not going to help. Fluctuating world markets will always screw the small producer which is why, inevitably, the agri-industrial combines get bigger as they buy out the smaller guy.

Let's hope you get a good deal from one of them.

I read somewhere the Thai government/ministries were trying to incentivise palm oil production here. A bit late I would have thought.
That's one of the strange things about all this, world rubber output is actually down, that big surplus never came to be.
Lots of factors, price stopped a lot of plantations tapping, workers laid down tools for better paid jobs, no fertilizer cut output and floods in Southern Thailand and Malaysia.
Most stopped making sheet, not economical to produce, so now there is underproduction, yet no speculators in the market.
It's as if buyers have just stopped buying on the futures market, Chinese have been caught out saying that large bonded reserves exist, seems the warehouse were empty, but on paper were full.

Worlds economic problems tied, to falling oil prices has just put a brake on confidence, no faith in the future of the markets.
All has to come to ahead sooner or later, as it won't just be the Greeks bailing out, no idea what will happen later this year, but the CIA prophecy project and the day after plan come to mind.