Someone’s going to bed hungry....
the Thai rice farmers have been waiting for their Gov rice price subsidy , which is based on Thai gov rice sale deals with big countries , like China . So when this deal collapses with China , the Thai gov cannot honor their subsidized price / purchase to the Thai farmers ( who make up the biggest base of support for the current Thai gov ) Perhaps not mentioned is that both Vietnam and India are coming on very strong in the pan Asian rice producers market and China has other places to buy their rice ( what they don’t grow themselves )However Thai ‘Jasmine’ is the world standard in quality and variety , so at least there is that .