Commerce Ministry changes cassava transfer control

Commerce Ministry changes cassava transfer control

The Commerce Ministry has changed the cassava transfer control, leaving only seven districts in three provinces to ask for permission before transferring.

Commerce Minister Porntiwa Nakasai said that the Central Commission on Prices and Services Control has agreed to change the regulation on cassava transfer control.

The existing regulation prescribes 24 border provinces to ask for permission before transferring more than 1,000 kilograms of cassava and cassava root both in and out of the provinces.

The new regulation will fix only seven districts in three provinces to ask for permission before transferring more than 5,000 kg of cassava and cassava root into the provinces.

BR> The provinces obliged with the new regulation include Mae Sot District of Tak Province, Ta Phraya, Khok Sung, Aranyaprathet and Khlong Hat Districts of Sa Kaeo Province, and Soi Dao and Pong Nam Ron Districts of Chanthaburi Province.

The Commission decides to control the transfer in the remaining seven districts since the areas are still at risk to cassava trafficking from neighboring countries, which will penetrate into the mortgaging scheme. Thai cassava farmers will then not receive the whole benefit from the project.

National News Bureau of Thailand
10 March 2009