Linking up...to Learn
Linking up...to Learn
Living with droughts is not easy. We have to learn to use water wisely. We have to prioritize water needs. We have to ration water by considering the overall long-term survival of all (residents and refugees) on our farm land. Water is needed for drinking, cleaning, growing food, cooling and moisturizing. Water is life!
Looking up the future to see what are likely to come our way, we found a drought map from SPEI Global Drought Monitor http://sac.csic.es/spei/map/maps.html(Go on check it out ;-)
(Brown ...yellow areas are in drought conditions as at February 2014)
and when we looked up Wikipedia/Rice http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice we found another map
(Green and Red areas are rice growing areas)
By overlaying the two maps, we learned something here. (But cautions: 1. SPEI map is showing drought index for the month of February 2014 -- it is usually dry in winters even in Thailand; 2. There are Rice varieties and irrigation technologies that may overcome levels of drought.) Dod you learn what we learned? Surely you can link drought in rice growing ares in China to the recent China offer to buy Thai rice (but they do it early and taking advantages of the shambles of Thailand Rice Subsidy Scheme to improve their price negotiation position!).
Our learning implies that Thailand may be in a very good position to regain world rice markets and our rice growers may become the world saviour -- rescueing China and Africa from rice famine.
But our problem is this: how do we let our rice growers/farmers know their true position and potential to improve their livelihood without allowing middlemen/traders taking all the cream?
Would you look at the two maps again, check the facts, and write what you find in Thai so that rice growers/farmers are also on the same level playing field as middlemen/traders? (Please, because I have severe short-coming in typing in Thai)
For the sake of Thai rice growers and their families. You can help. Please help!
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