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Thai PM orders another quick import of 120,000 tonnes of palm oil
BANGKOK, Feb 20 (TNA) - The Thai government wants a quick import of another 120,000 tonnes of palm oil to relieve palm oil shortage in the country.
Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said he told his deputies Suthep Thaugsuban and Trairong Suwannakhiri to order the Commerce Ministry to import 120,000 more tonnes of palm oil and they would meet on February 22 to discuss more solutions.
The prime minister insisted that his government did not ignore solving palm oil shortage and he already ordered the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) to investigate reports of irregularities about palm oil including alleged hoards.
DSI Deputy Director-General Pol Col Narat Sawettanant, in his capacity as head of the palm oil hoarding probe team, said his group on Saturday (Feb 19) inspected big department stores and two factories that received quotas from the Commerce Ministry to bottle refined palm oil with blue caps and retail them to consumers. The inspection found no traces of wrongdoing. He said his team has yet to inspect eight more factories and it should finish the task within next week.
A source at the Commerce Ministry said that on February 22 Commerce Minister Porntiva Nakasai would propose solutions to palm oil shortage to the Palm Board and report the distribution of 22 million bottles of palm oil in the country to the cabinet meeting.
In response to the commerce minister’s plan to seek 1 billion baht to intervene in the markets and reduce the price of palm oil, the prime minister said the cabinet would discuss the issue on February 22 and he did not think the measure would need that much money. (TNA)
Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said he told his deputies Suthep Thaugsuban and Trairong Suwannakhiri to order the Commerce Ministry to import 120,000 more tonnes of palm oil and they would meet on February 22 to discuss more solutions.
The prime minister insisted that his government did not ignore solving palm oil shortage and he already ordered the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) to investigate reports of irregularities about palm oil including alleged hoards.
DSI Deputy Director-General Pol Col Narat Sawettanant, in his capacity as head of the palm oil hoarding probe team, said his group on Saturday (Feb 19) inspected big department stores and two factories that received quotas from the Commerce Ministry to bottle refined palm oil with blue caps and retail them to consumers. The inspection found no traces of wrongdoing. He said his team has yet to inspect eight more factories and it should finish the task within next week.
A source at the Commerce Ministry said that on February 22 Commerce Minister Porntiva Nakasai would propose solutions to palm oil shortage to the Palm Board and report the distribution of 22 million bottles of palm oil in the country to the cabinet meeting.
In response to the commerce minister’s plan to seek 1 billion baht to intervene in the markets and reduce the price of palm oil, the prime minister said the cabinet would discuss the issue on February 22 and he did not think the measure would need that much money. (TNA)
