In the News: High rice prices no windfall for many Asian farmers
By Thomas Fuller, International Herald Tribune, Published: April 7, 2008
TONG JAI DAI, Laos: It should be happy times in the radiant green rice paddies that Pomchan Luanguanna has spent more than three decades tilling: The price of his crop is soaring faster and higher than anyone can remember, and local newspapers are comparing rice, once a relatively inexpensive and neglected commodity, to gold sprouting from the black soil.
But Pomchan, like many small farmers across Asia, is not rejoicing. His extended family eats more or less all the rice he harvests from his small plot.
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