A Huge El Nino Is Spreading All Kinds Of Mayhem Around The World
A Huge El Nino Is Spreading All Kinds of Mayhem Around the World 28 October 2015 By Supunnabul Suwannakij Bloomberg – It has choked Singapore with smoke, triggered Pacific typhoons and left Vietnamese coffee growers staring nervously at dwindling reservoirs. In Africa, cocoa farmers are blaming it for bad harvests, and in the Americas, it has […]
Thailand To Sign Rubber Supply Deal With China’s Sinochem
Thailand To Sign Rubber Supply Deal With China’s Sinochem 28 October 2015 By Supunnabul Suwannakij Bloomberg – Thailand plans to sign deal next month with state-owned Sinochem Group to supply 200,000 tonnes for 1 year, Minister of Agriculture and Cooperatives Chatchai Sarikulya says in interview on Wednesday in Bangkok. * Thailand seeking to reduce rubber surplus through […]
Tocom Rubber Higher As Slow Production, Drought Support
Tocom Rubber Higher As Slow Production, Drought Support 21 July 2015, 09:17 SEAST Tocom RSS3 rubber futures are slightly higher in slow trade amid the lack of fresh cues. Although rubber is entering into the peak production season, the International Rubber Consortium says in a market report on its website that global rubber […]
Malaysia To Give Incentives, Subsidies To Rubber Smallholders
Malaysia To Give Incentives, Subsidies To Rubber Smallholders 28 October 2015 By Niluksi Koswanage and Anuradha Raghu Bloomberg – Government to spend as much as 200 million ringgit on subsidies and incentives from January, Prime Minister Najib Razak says in budget speech in Parliament. * Government to subsidize farmers if rubber prices fall […]
Vietnam Urged To Join Rubber Consortium
Vietnam Urged To Join Rubber Consortium 21 July 2015, 16:24 SEAST Thailand is set to lobby Vietnam at a meeting in Bangkok next week to join the International Rubber Consortium Ltd (IRCo), a move that would help to stabilise rubber prices. The country is also seeking to expand bilateral trade to US$20 billion over the next five years. […]
The Thai Cabinet Approved Subsidy To Reduce The Burden Of Rubber Smallholders
The Thai Cabinet Approved Subsidy To Reduce The Burden Of Rubber Smallholders 28 October 2015 The Thai cabinet approved a subsidy for NR smallholders with Land Titles. Under this measure, smallholders will get a subsidy of THB1,250 per rai for up to a maximum of 15 rais. The Prime Minister of Thailand […]
Natural Rubber Production (From 3 ANRPC Member Countries) Fell By 0.7% For The First Half Of 2015
Natural Rubber Production (From 3 ANRPC Member Countries) Fell By 0.7% For The First Half Of 2015 16 July 2015, 17:00 SEAST Natural rubber production as reported in the Natural Rubber Trends and Statistics of the Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries (ANRPC) (Vol. 7. No. 6/June 2015), fell by 0.7% (-35,000 MT) […]
Courtesy Calls to Relevant Key Officials in Thailand
Courtesy Calls To Relevant Key Officials In Thailand 30 October 2015
Bilateral Discussion Between Minister of Agriculture And Cooperatives Of Thailand And Minister Of Agriculture And Rural Development Of Vietnam
Bilateral Discussion Between Minister of Agriculture And Cooperatives Of Thailand And Minister Of Agriculture And Rural Development Of Vietnam 27 July 2015, 15:00 SEAST On 23 July 2015, H.E. Cac Duc Phat, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnam paid a courtesy call to H.E. Petipong Pungbun Na Ayudhya, Minister of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Thailand. Both Excellencies had a chance […]
U.S. Auto Industry Heading For Record Sales In 2015
U.S. Auto Industry Heading For Record Sales In 2015 4 November 2015 The U.S. auto industry is on track for a record annual sale as indicated by the continued improvement of its auto sales in October which was far higher than market expectations. In October 2015, the U.S. automobile sales jumped by 13.6% to 1,455,516 units in […]