{"id":627922,"date":"2026-09-26T08:10:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T08:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/627922\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T08:10:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T08:10:57","slug":"thailand-plans-to-raise-rice-and-crude-palm-oil-reserves-for-el-nino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/627922\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand plans to raise rice and crude palm oil reserves for El Ni\u00f1o"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wittayakorn acknowledged, however, that promotions on some products had been discontinued, causing prices to edge up.<\/p>\n<p>Retailers and wholesalers were also asked to take turns offering promotions on selected products.<\/p>\n<p>Wittayakorn said that in fiscal year 2026, the Department of Internal Trade had operated through four main approaches:<\/p>\n<p>Managing agricultural output through advance planning, strengthening cooperation, reducing low-quality products and seeking opportunities for new channels and trade.<\/p>\n<p>Using value-chain mechanisms for four products: feed maize, oil palm, cassava and bananas.<\/p>\n<p>Supporting farmers in building sustainability, including the Khao Praneet project and setting up a central purchasing point for coconuts.<\/p>\n<p>Reducing living costs through Thong Fah (Blue Flag) fairs and the Thais Help Thais Plus programme, which reduced the cost-of-living burden by THB816.54 million.<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790410257_325_lg-webp.webp\" alt=\"Thailand plans to raise rice and crude palm oil reserves for El Ni\u00f1o\" class=\"img-fluid w-100 showcaption-false\" style=\"width: 1300px; height: 731px;\" width=\"1300\" height=\"731\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wittayakorn acknowledged, however, that promotions on some products had been discontinued, causing prices to edge up. Retailers and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,283883,17488,184,1647,85,46,13959,1348,170953],"class_list":["post-627922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-crude-palm-oil","tag-drought","tag-economy","tag-el-nino","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-rice","tag-thailand","tag-the-department-of-internal-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}