Smuggling keeps lid on sticky rice price
Sticky rice have been smuggled into the country, but ironically it has helped curb soaring price, said Chukiat Opaswong, honorary president of the Thai Rice Exporters Association.
Some merchants, he said, had smuggled 100,000 tonnes of glutinous rice into the country from Vietnam via Thailand’s neighboring countries, adding that they were then mixed with Thai glutinous rice before going on sale in the local market.
The Nation Reporter
