Farmers burning sugarcane face additional fees for milling their crop

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Farmers burning sugarcane face additional fees for milling their crop

 

 

Sugarcane growers, who burn their crops before harvesting, will be charged 30 baht/tonne for the burnt sugarcane delivered to sugar mills, while the mills will be levied 12 baht/tonne for accepting burnt cane exceeding the set limits.

 

Industry Ministry spokeswoman Ms. Suchada Taensap said today that the measure is intended to discourage sugarcane farmers from burning their crops to save labour costs.

 

Widespread sugarcane burning has become the norm in many provinces during the harvest season, despite the fact that the practice is illegal and violators face heavy fines. The fees will be charged by the Sugarcane and Sugar Committee’s Office and paid to farmers who do not burn their crops, as an incentive to continue the practice.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/farmers-burning-sugarcane-face-additional-fees-for-milling-their-crop/

 

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[Chazar 8,308]

yeah  sure  right.........so  you have an inspector at every  factory day and night 24hours who is  unbribeable do you........more total and utter BS from the useless non elected govt who  love to show  us  al how much they arent really doing..................I  know.......why  not a  points  system....how  about 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 points  maximum and 1  point  per infringement?

[Crossy 21,861]

Unless I'm going mad (quite possible) I recall a very similar headline a few months back.

 

The net result has been, of course, zero.

 

[pegman 5,703]

Fail!

[Chazar 8,308]

8 minutes ago, pegman said:

Fail!

its  called  "lip  service"............theyre great  at  that

[Chazar 8,308]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

The fees will be charged by the Sugarcane and Sugar Committee’s Office

even  more  hilarious

[30la 2,009]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Sugarcane growers, who burn their crops before harvesting, will be charged 30 baht/tonne for the burnt sugarcane delivered to sugar mills, while the mills will be levied 12 baht/tonne for accepting burnt cane exceeding the set limits.

It will end as always, a "small" offer to the right person and the fine is buried.

[Youlike 1,836]

Let them grow mango's, have you seen the price of dehydrated mango in thailand? Extreme expensive.

 

Thailand should be the hub of mango, mango jam, dried mango, frozen mango, mango candy, mango juice......sell that to the rich countries.

[Crossy 21,861]

At a raw cane price of about 800 Baht per tonne (latest price I could find) a total levy of 42 Baht per tonne for burnt cane  = about 5%.

 

Enough of a penalty??

 

[Sydebolle 3,296]

Ha ha ha - and you want to tell me, that this will change anything? The boys doing their rounds inspecting will upgrade from BMW to Mercedes - that‘s all. 

Put hefty fines on all, the farmer, the trucker, the miller - everybody. You are killing your own country and your own people. Now how hopelessly stupid is that .......... mind boggling 

[mickey rat 557]

That'll fix it!

[bluejets 66]

Given most Thai are pretty resourceful, I would expect any extra fee for "burnt cane" would very quickly burn out given most would realise, cut it green, then burn the thrash in the paddock.

Same as happens in many instances in Aus.

Fine for those who say"plough it back in to the ground" but if one considers dust to dust effect, there are many things used to get this trash back into the ground.

Fuel, oils, new tractors, new ploughs ( old draught horses too slow and greenies won't let anyone cut a tree down to build a plough these days)

and the time.

A match does it in no time.

Edited January 24 by bluejets

[ben2talk 929]

It's comical for sure - there shouldn't be any manual harvesting of sugar cane at all; only Thailand would try to hang on to an increasingly outdated method of harvesting as hiring manual cane cutters.

 

The solution is to force cooperation and investment in harvesting machines. The government could even buy a few and offer them on a hire basis...

 

Certainly if you want to force farmers to do things the hard way (the right way) then you must push much harder to force investment.

 

As usual, mostly this is about Lip Service.

 

 

 

[unamazedloso 3,841]

This is another blatant lie. The local cane factory to me made a statement that they would not accept burnt cane. I have only seen burnt cane entering when i pass daily. This is more BS to pretend they are doing something because No biz is going to pay more are they? Especially not a Thai biz and this is why people burn because its cheaper to pay poor slaves to cut cane than it is to hire a harvester so we all have to reach an early grave be ause of greed that foes all the way to money bags prayut which is obvious given his made up % of causes of pollution and also telling people he is tough and its fine. No PM anywhere in the world could be so dumb as to say such things. Makes me sick. Seems a lot of Thais completely agree.

 

[MaxLee 5,386]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Farmers burning sugarcane face additional fees for milling their crop

For every fee, there is an extra brown envelops from the influential Agricultural organizations