AreaThailand

Commodity GroupRice

CommodityAll

Date01/07/2013

Policy CategoryStocks

Policy InstrumentStock release

DescriptionAnnounced that it would accelerate public stock releases. Starting in July, between 500 000 tonnes to 1.0 million tonnes of rice are expected be offloaded from public inventories each month. The supplies would be sold via open tenders to the private sector and through the Agricultural Futures Exchange of Thailand (AFET), with government-to-government deals also to be pursued.