Rice Cartel

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MANILA, Philippines -- Asian countries sought Friday to tame the spiraling Rice market, with Thailand proposing an OPEC-style Cartel for exporters and the Philippines shoring up supplies while aiming to end its status as the world's largest importer. ...

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BANGKOK, Thailand — Thailand is dropping plans to create a Southeast Asian Rice Cartel that would have fixed the price of the skyrocketing commodity over food security concerns, the country's foreign minister said Tuesday. ...

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Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday defended the proposed creation of a Southeast Asian Rice Cartel that he said could help ensure supplies and stabilize prices of the staple grain. (05 May 2008) ...

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Competition and disparate production among would-be members make proposal unfeasible ...

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BANGKOK - Thailand's Foreign Minister Noppadon Pattama on Tuesday said the country would not form a Cartel with other Rice-exporting countries, bowing to concerns that it could worsen the global food shortage. "The Rice issue is very sensitive, and if a Rice Cartel is formed it would make the world food crisis worse," he said. ...

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Thailand has dropped plans to create an OPEC-style Rice Cartel, saying it will focus on finding ways to improve productivity among Rice-exporting nations. Thai Foreign Minister Noppadon Pattama said ... ...

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Competition and disparate production among would-be members make the Rice-Cartel proposal unfeasible. read more ...

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Thailand, the world's biggest Rice exporter, on Tuesday dropped its proposal to create an OPEC-style Rice Cartel and instead offered to invite top producing nations to a forum on ways to increase... ...

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Until last week, the next oil - the crucial resource growing ever scarcer and prompting desperate behavior to ensure supplies - was water. ...

Source: www.topix.com --- 79 days ago
"By forming an association, we can help prevent a price war and exchange information about food security" By AMBIKA AHUJA Friday, May 02, 2008 Asian countries sought Friday to tame the spiraling Rice market, with Thailand proposing an OPEC-style Cartel for exporters and the Philippines shoring up supplies while ... via WQXI-AM Atlanta ...

Source: www.china-economy.net --- 81 days ago
An organization of Rice exporting countries (OREC) including Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar will aim to set common price for their Rice exports for more benefits of their own and the world, national media said on Monday. Common price of Rice will enhance OREC’s capability to Rice production, provide chance for them to help [...] ...

Source: www.topix.com --- 76 days ago
"If Thailand sets up a Rice Cartel and fixes a price, that will worsen food security" Thailand's Foreign Minister Noppadon Pattama said Tuesday that the kingdom is dropping its previous plans to create a Cartel with other Rice-exporting countries in Southeast Asia, citing concerns over food ... via People's Daily ...

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"The Thai side planned to come to Vietnam late last month for talks over the issue, but they haven't come yet." Vietnamese officials have rebutted Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej's claim that a controversial Rice price-fixing Cartel was close, saying that Thai negotiators scheduled to visit Vietnam to discuss the issue ... via Bangkok Post ...

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"The prime minister of Thailand , Samak Sundaravej, said Wednesday that his government would try to create a Cartel of Rice-producing countries in partnership with Vietnam , Cambodia , Myanmar and Laos . “We don’t aspire to be like OPEC , but we hope to be just a group of five to help each other in trading Rice on the world market,” Mr. Samak was quoted as saying in The Nation newspaper. But if successful, a Cartel could have far-reaching consequences on the Rice market, sustaining prices at their current historic highs and worsening a food crisis that is hurting Asia’s poorest consumers. The price of Thai B-grade Rice, a benchmark variety, has nearly tripled in recent months and is now hovering at about $1,000 a ton ." (Thanks D.) ...