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IsaanAussie, on 2012-05-26 07:55:48, said:
They grow chili here off season. Too much but that is another issue. At its peak with the first green chili for sale the farmgate prices hit the mid thirties, within weeks red chili was getting not much more than half.
Pickers were hard to find and not many that would work for the few baht a kg that was standard last year. I heard one guy explain that since people in Bangkok now got 300 baht a day, he didnt figure he should take less. Since he thought he could pick (at a leisurely pace) about 10kg a day, he wanted 30 baht a kg to pick the crop. Say what? TIT
Pickers were hard to find and not many that would work for the few baht a kg that was standard last year. I heard one guy explain that since people in Bangkok now got 300 baht a day, he didnt figure he should take less. Since he thought he could pick (at a leisurely pace) about 10kg a day, he wanted 30 baht a kg to pick the crop. Say what? TIT
hi
omitt the word, leasurely, and the guy might just have a point, wanting to make a living from his daywork.
i did pick a few times our few chilis here, we also grow a little for dry season, strictly for wife/family...and my conclusion that it is rather hard to pick large quantity per hour. also, i dont think yet there is a mashine to pick green from red, and do accurately and cheaply.
so, while with the current economic you think labour is impossible to pay, it only suggests for me that not the picker who wants too much money, but the farmgate/market price of the chili must be too low then.
little different than on the rubber thread Jim's example, since he offers way over minimum wage for some work to be done, and honestly, for i 1000 baht, i just hope he would be my neighbor, i have time on hand, and that would make a decent living, if permanent job.
and here is one question, how many of these offered jobs are one off, how many the permanent. of course, you wont find for the former ppl to do for the same salary, nothing to do with thailand.
i had to luck also for some "communal" work done here by mostly family, and as someone pointed out, the cost of food and booze + money combined well outstripped the simple flat price what a harvester would cost. not to mention speed.
in my opinion, it doesnt have to be all work together. remember, socialism didnt work that well on the west neigher, why would here?
it better to have someone do a proper job, and earn his proper wage for it, as per his productivity, than a bunch of freeloaders amongst few hard workers, that is not the team i would like to be in if i work hard, and earn the same as some lazy one.
no trouble i see if more thais think the same. maybe not the nostalgic feel how it was, and so on, but that is life.
