The Commerce Ministry is scheduled to negotiate on Thursday the sale of 1 million tonnes of rice to Indonesia under government-to-government (G2G) deals, while pledging to move ahead with plans to negotiate a similar rice sale with China.
According to Commerce Minister Phumtham Wechayachai, the Foreign Trade Department’s chief was tasked with leading a team to negotiate the expansion of rice trade through G2G agreements with Indonesia following approval by the National Rice Policy Committee.
Late last year, Prime Minister Srettha…