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• Angry Farmers, Unsold Rice: Thailand Near Crisis? Wednesday, 27 Mar 2013 | 7:23 PM ET

  

  Thailand is set to sell half-a-million tons of rice on world markets at a loss, as it scrambles to offload a record stockpile deteriorating in quality in warehouses filled with grain.

• FACTBOX-How the Thai government's rice intervention works Wednesday, 27 Mar 2013 | 5:00 PM ET

  March 28- Thailand intervenes in the rice market each year to support millions of farmers, but the scheme launched by the government in October 2011 guaranteed prices so generous that they have caused huge stockpiles, hit exports and strained finances.

• ANALYSIS-Angry farmers, unsold rice: Thai intervention near crisis? Wednesday, 27 Mar 2013 | 4:59 PM ET

  *Thailand may have to sell 500,000 T rice on world markets at a loss. SUPHAN BURI, Thailand, March 28- Thailand is set to sell half-a-million tonnes of rice on world markets at a loss, as it scrambles to offload a record stockpile deteriorating in quality in warehouses filled with grain bought under a government scheme.

• Thai rice farmers threaten protest if intervention price cut Monday, 4 Mar 2013 | 4:24 AM ET

  BANGKOK, March 4- Thai farmers vowed on Monday to stage a major protest after the government signalled it was weighing a plan to cut rice intervention prices by a tenth, in another sign that the state could be running short of funds for the scheme.

• COLUMN-Asia rice prices look unsustainably high as supply rises: Clyde Russell Thursday, 28 Feb 2013 | 11:02 PM ET

  --Clyde Russell is a Reuters market analyst. And it's not just a Thailand story, although the government's intervention scheme certainly has resulted in record inventories building up in a country that was until last year the world's biggest rice exporter.

• India's grain mountain grows despite push for exports Monday, 25 Feb 2013 | 4:00 PM ET

  *India only has space to store 47 mln tonnes. SINGAPORE/ NEW DELHI, Feb 26- India will be unable to consume or export enough wheat and rice to rein in a record stockpile after another bumper harvest, a failure that means crops risk rotting in fields instead of being sold on world markets to cash in on higher prices.

• GRAINS-Wheat skids to 8-mth low as snow blankets dry U.S. Plains Thursday, 21 Feb 2013 | 12:59 AM ET

  *USDA projects record large U.S. corn, soy harvests. "It's the mighty snowstorm," said Jerry Gidel, chief feed grains analyst for Rice Dairy. At the Chicago Board of Trade, March wheat lost 2.2 percent to $7.22- 1/ 2 per bushe1 by 11:45 a.m. CST.

• Thailand to rent additional rice storage as warehouses fill up Wednesday, 16 Jan 2013 | 5:53 AM ET

  BANGKOK, Jan 16- Thailand, struggling to find storage for a rice buying scheme that cost the country its crown as the world's biggest exporter of the grain, will rent private warehouses to store next month's harvest, government officials said on Wednesday.

• Asia Rice-Ample supply, competing exporters push prices lower Wednesday, 9 Jan 2013 | 3:49 AM ET

  *Supply rises in India, Vietnam. *India becomes world's biggest exporter. BANGKOK, Jan 9- Asian rice prices fell this week as supplies far exceeded demand, with top producers India, Pakistan and Vietnam competing with each other to attract business, traders said on Wednesday.