Originally Posted by
jamescollister
What subsidies would they be Harry, got 20,000 Baht fertilizer grant 3 or 4 years ago, big deal.
Export tax, which is 5 Baht a kilo, which comes in the form of lower rubber gate prices, farmer pays.
This year may break the 3,000 kilos a week output, 3,000 times 5 Baht and I got 20,000 Baht fertilizer sub years age.
Thailand is bleeding the poor small rubber farmers and will kill off the industry in the end, 97 % of rubber plantations are small family run plantations.