20 May 69

"World Ji" confirms that private cents MOU imports 1 million tons of "GMO corn" in the United States do not affect Thai farmers, pointing out that there are measures to protect the price-import framework not exceeding the specified threshold, repeat, do not order more imports.

On May 20, 69, at the government house, Mrs. Suthayi, the deputy prime minister, and the Rev. Commerce mentioned the case of a group of maize planters, expressed concern and complaint about the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives. In the case of 1 million tons of GMO maize imports from the United States, there is no concern because of the recent situation of maize output. According to the data, there is a demand for more than 20 million tons, but only about 9 million tons of maize, of which the capacity is only 5 million tons. Therefore, domestic production is lacking in about 4 million tons, which requires replacement materials such as grits, bran and oily.

It includes imports from ASEAN and its neighbors, which have different rules, but cannot currently be imported from Cambodia, and imports from Myanmar are dwindling, because we control about 1.5 million tons of incineration, and one million tons of imports under the World Trade Organization (WTO).

Nang Subhajee said that the case of signing in the United States is Thai private because the forage business is concerned that the chain of cooking animals will be affected because there is not enough volume, so he signed one million tons of emoi, which is not a contract, and emoi signing without a contract, which is another option. And there is a requirement that if there is a shortage, there must be imports. Confirm that this is not an increase in imports, but within the framework of the WTO. Therefore, do not worry there.

Mrs. Subhajee said that our imports already have measures to protect farmers, that they must buy domestically before they can be imported, and that the proportion is 3 to 1. For example, that if they produce 5 million tons domestically, they can import about 1.5 million tons, and that there is a control on the minimum price, not below a certain threshold, to prevent Thai farmers from being affected by the price.