BANGKOK, 29 September 2013 – The Ministry of Commerce has set plans to distribute cheap products to people in the flood-affected areas despite no reports of any supply shortage.
Deputy Minister of Commerce Yanyong Phuangrach said he had assigned provincial commercial offices and the Department of Internal Trade to survey and monitor product prices, especially the prices of pork, eggs and chicken in the flood-hit areas. Apart from the ministry’s plan to sell low-priced goods there, it would organize its famous “Blue Flag” cheap product projects after the floods.
For the flood-affected rice farmers in the Northeast, the ministry and relevant units would provide rice grains for them to cultivate. The overall rice production in the region might not drop since paddy fields on high terrains were unaffected by the floods, the deputy minister said. He assured that rice shortage was also unlikely since the country’s rice stock was still high.
