Damn! 10% (maybe 20) doesn’t meet declared amount or quality.
Rice stocks checking show 80% meets declared amount and quality
Rice stock checking of 1,290 warehouses from the total 1,787 warehouse joining the former government’s rice pledging scheme has proved that 80% of rice are quality rice and meet the amount declared in official documents.
Gen Chatchai Sarikalya, deputy leader in charge of economic affairs of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), in his capacity as chairman of the Rice Policy and Management Committee , revealed Monday that he has received reports of rice stock checking from authorities of 1,290 warehouses or 72% of the total 1,787 warehouses joining the rice pledging scheme across the country.
The checking showed that 80% of rice checked is of good quality and the quantity of rice in the warehouses met the figures stated in the official documents, with only 10% that did not meet the declared amount and quality.
He said authorities would continue to check the warehouses in details again.
Meanwhile he said he has ordered all relevant government agencies to monitor all measures which were introduced and implemented to help farmers to see if they have achieved success or not.
He said that it was not necessary right now to hastily sell rice in the market but at appropriate time based on demand and supply to prevent impact on Thai rice prices.
He also said that the NCPO would ensure that the populist price guarantee and the rice pledging schemes would not be revived again as the NCPO would emphasize on cost cutting measures instead to help rice farmers.