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[jayboy]

OzMick, on Today, 20:52 , said:

Australia is a rice producer and exporter of medium grain rice, the size of the crop limited by water availability. Around 1 million tonnes/year is grown with the highest yield/hectare (around 10, Thailand 3.3) and lowest water usage in the world, and of course FAR fewer people employed so much higher incomes.
Can you imagine the look on Yingluk's face if it was suggested we could teach Thais how to grow rice.

Australia's undoubted competitive advantages and Thailand's very low rice farming yields are a matter of record, but have nothing to do with the thread.

If there is a point here I should be mildly interested to know what it is.My hunch however is that the usual suspects inanely trail around the forum looking for threads relating to the Prime Minister with the aim of mud slinging.Fair enough but in this instance where the PM is making an excellent impression for Thailand in Australia they seem to have rather lost their way - so the question remains.What exact point is being made?

[pastitche]

jayboy, on Today, 18:09 , said:

Buchholz, on Today, 17:14 , said:

Lite Beer, on Today, 14:36 , said:

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra presided over the opening ceremony of Thailand: Kitchen to the World

DNPBC0, on Today, 15:23 , said:

Great news from the PM of Thailand. It shows some vision for the future at a time when global food security is increasingly threatened by population growth, water shortages, energy uncertainties and climate change. Thailand is in a good position to make a positive response, but farmers here are very badly remunerated, poorly resourced in terms of modern technology and seriously undervalued as keystones of the nation. I am hoping that Yingluk will lead a revitalisation of Thai agriculture and the status of farmers.

News from the previous PM of Thailand in a speech during the 20th World Economic Forum on East Asia nearly a year ago on 13 June 2011:


In the food industry, Thailand has long been known as the Kitchen of the World, not only from our wealth of tastes and spices, but as the world's biggest rice exporter.


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Is there a point being made here because it eludes me?

You know exactly the point being made - this is TVF, Abhisit said it first and of course said it better, apparently.

Edited by pastitche, Today, 21:21 .

[jayboy]

pastitche, on Today, 21:17 , said:

You know exactly the point being made - this is TVF, Abhisit said it first and of course said it better, apparently.

You're probably right..  I also suspect that was the intent.One would laugh if the creepiness of the usual suspects wasn't so apparent.

[WhizBang]

Buchholz, on Today, 18:43 , said:

Link to Photo:
http://news.yahoo.co...-025125414.html
Thailand's Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra smiles during a cooking demonstration at the "Thai Kitchen to the World" in Sydney May 27, 2012.
REUTERS.

She smiles.  Now that IS news.  But what else is a muppet to do?

[OzMick]

jayboy, on Today, 21:08 , said:

OzMick, on Today, 20:52 , said:

Australia is a rice producer and exporter of medium grain rice, the size of the crop limited by water availability. Around 1 million tonnes/year is grown with the highest yield/hectare (around 10, Thailand 3.3) and lowest water usage in the world, and of course FAR fewer people employed so much higher incomes.
Can you imagine the look on Yingluk's face if it was suggested we could teach Thais how to grow rice.

Australia's undoubted competitive advantages and Thailand's very low rice farming yields are a matter of record, but have nothing to do with the thread.

If there is a point here I should be mildly interested to know what it is.My hunch however is that the usual suspects inanely trail around the forum looking for threads relating to the Prime Minister with the aim of mud slinging.Fair enough but in this instance where the PM is making an excellent impression for Thailand in Australia they seem to have rather lost their way - so the question remains.What exact point is being made?

"The Yingluck administration's main strategies include (1) expanding agriculture and food business, (2) adding value to agricultural produce with high-technology production processes, (3) supporting cooperation at regional and international levels..........."

Did you miss that part of the OP?
Is that not part of the topic?
What part of the topic is sniping at other posters and their supposed motives?

MY point was that we do a better job of growing rice with limited resources, but the Thai government would rather subsidise an uneconomic industry  than learn how to do it better.

Edited by OzMick, 16 minutes ago.

[eddo]

'The Commerce Ministry has worked on such strategies in many countries, including Australia, in order for Thai cuisine to be well known through Thai restaurants and department stores selling Thai food products worldwide, the premier said.'

It's only words words words as usual, after the strategie comes the tactics to workout the strategie and also the longterm plans none of this all..! It's a nice speech written down by ms. PM's ghostwriters not even by herself. As soon everybody is nicely settled down in the business class of Thai Airways with a nice glass of champie at hand everybody already forgotten what the hell they were doing in Australia.

[gand]

Will she become the new Julia Child?