date:Jan 20, 2014
the bond issue looks set to be used to pay farmers since rice sales are limited by the ban on exports.
The caretaker government has no authority to seal any state binding agreements, including rice deals, so government-to-government rice sales will halt automatically, Surasak said.
Thailand sold 1 million tonnes of rice to China in November to be supplied over a period of one year but the shipments have been held up as the Election Commision says the caretaker government cannot enact long-term