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**Hlennisal** · 04-04-2011, 02:08 PM

Quote[/b] ]A family of ten eats about 55 bags of rice per year, so if you have a family of ten with a 25 rai farm makes somewhere between 30,000 and 40,000 baht cash per year.

Quote[/b] ]And I pay 60 baht / kilo for Thai-grown Jasmine Rice ??“? in Minneapolis, and I think that's cheap.
So the farmer gets 5-7 baht. Hmmmmm. I guess there are a lot of other players in the system.

Quote[/b] ]We grow mostly khao nieo and a little bit khao jao.

Yum, yum! I love khao nieo. (I'm sure I'm not the only one!) I wish it were more easily accessible abroad, but because it is not, it's even more expensive than khao hom mali. Someone should get their hands on exporting khao nieo in a consitent way and targetted to the right places.

Maybe the internet revolution can help cut out all these middlemen and give farmers their due. It is my wish to one day see farmers as the most respected and well off citizens of the world. They produce our food! Shouldn't that be more important than most things?

Thanks for posting a crucial topic for Thais, Delawang!

04-04-2011, 02:08 PM	#6
Hlennisal Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 504 Senior Member	Quote[/b] ]A family of ten eats about 55 bags of rice per year, so if you have a family of ten with a 25 rai farm makes somewhere between 30,000 and 40,000 baht cash per year. Quote[/b] ]And I pay 60 baht / kilo for Thai-grown Jasmine Rice ??“? in Minneapolis, and I think that's cheap. So the farmer gets 5-7 baht. Hmmmmm. I guess there are a lot of other players in the system. Quote[/b] ]We grow mostly khao nieo and a little bit khao jao. Yum, yum! I love khao nieo. (I'm sure I'm not the only one!) I wish it were more easily accessible abroad, but because it is not, it's even more expensive than khao hom mali. Someone should get their hands on exporting khao nieo in a consitent way and targetted to the right places. Maybe the internet revolution can help cut out all these middlemen and give farmers their due. It is my wish to one day see farmers as the most respected and well off citizens of the world. They produce our food! Shouldn't that be more important than most things? Thanks for posting a crucial topic for Thais, Delawang!
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