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Japan Govt starts receiving bids for stockpiled rice

March 10, 2025

The Japanese agriculture ministry started receiving bids for stockpiled rice on Monday in an effort to curb soaring prices by addressing supply shortfalls.

S Korea to subsidise kimchi-making fest by releasing vegetable, salt stocks

October 28, 2022

South Korea plans to release its stockpile of vegetables and salt to cope with the lingering inflation for the annual kimchi-making period ahead of winter, the government said on Friday.

Govt denies selling old-stock rubber, but will not take action to raise prices

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 08, 2018

Contrary to allegations by leading rubber farmers, the government has not instructed the Rubber Authority of Thailand to unload its old stockpile of third-grade rubber sheets onto the market, Government Spokesman Lt-General Sansern Kaewkamnerd said on Saturday.

Wat ‘needs time’ to explain wood stockpile

TUESDAY, JANUARY 09, 2018

Wat Mettatham Phothiyan in Kanchanaburi province has asked for a 15-day extension to prepare documents to explain a large quantity of processed wood that authorities found in its compound early last month, raising suspicions of illegal logging.

Rice suspension will continue

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 09, 2016

THE COMMERCE MINISTRY will continue to suspend the release of rice from government stockpiles until next year to ensure that the market price of rice does not fall too steeply during the current harvest season, which began early this month and runs until

Govt may freeze stockpile rice sales

FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 2016

GIVEN FLUCTUATING rice prices, currency volatility and uncertainty over the weather, the Commerce Ministry will closely monitor the market situation on a day-by-day basis to decide whether to continue releasing rice from the government stockpiles or to su