Bruce551 Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 Ignoring bio-fertilisers Post bag, * Published: 23/03/2010 at 12:00 AM * Newspaper section: News Thai government officials are now going abroad to try and sell Thai rice, which is expensive and has a high production cost. The price of Vietnamese rice is about 20% lower. The Vietnamese government encourages the use of bio-fertiliser. The Thai government operates a perfect and closed system to distribute harmful chemical fertilisers and sprays to farmers, and does little to encourage the use of bio-fertiliser. A Thai, who long ago created two 100% organic bio-fertilisers that could enable the country to phase out chemical agriculture and increase the yield by about 30% in bio-chemical farming alone, with farmers using half the amount of chemical fertiliser, is still being ignored by the Thai government. The interest of governments in Africa, Vietnam, etc, for his bio-fertilisers and ideas is huge. The interest of the Thai government is zero, even though it could win the support of the farmers by helping them to make the change to bio-chemical and 100% organic farming over a period of three years. Chemical agriculture keeps farmers poor, bio-fertiliser agriculture makes them much wealthier. Sadly, the Thai government seems unwilling to use Thai bio-technology advances to help the farmers, and chooses to persist with old-style, harmful, chemical technology. It's such a shame. SOMCHAI M So how much influence does the Thai Petrochemical Industry corporations, PTT, Siam Cement, CP have over government agricultural policy? Previous post from me, I have the feeling that many people do not understand the fundamentals of the King's "Sufficiency" economics. Main Point: To reduce the Thai farmers exposure to volatile price swings of international commodities markets. Commodity Inputs: The Thai farmer buys diesel fuel, fossil fuel based fertilizer and pesticides at market prices which can vary as much as 50% in price. Outputs: Rice, which the price a can vary from 6,000 Baht a ton to 18,000 baht a ton. The Thai farmer land slowly becomes less fertile and productive and requires more and more fossil fuel fertilizer. Sufficiency: The Thai farmer plants Bio-fuel trees and gets CDM carbon credits and diesel fuel. He makes his organic fertilizer and diversifies his crops. He sells less rice and more vegies, but gets a better price and has less farm expenses because he is not buying fossile fuels. And his land is more fertile and better able to withstand the impacts of climate change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geee Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 Some members of Parliament are well paid, I presume, by the chemical lobby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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