Bangkok Post – Commerce Ministry touts rice sales to many nations

The Commerce Ministry is promoting government-to-government (G2G) sales of rice to Indonesia, while pledging to move ahead with plans to negotiate a similar sale with China.

Late last year at the Japan-Asean Summit, Indonesia expressed its intent to purchase 1 million tonnes of rice from Thailand via a G2G deal.

The first lot of 55,000 tonnes has been sold to…