A commerce ministry investigation found most of the 39,000 tonnes of glutinous rice from the 2013-14 crop year in a Chai Nat warehouse was contaminated with a mixture of ordinary and rotten rice. Ms Apiradi said the Public Warehouse Organisation (PWO) has been working with Sing Tak to sort the remaining rice by the end of this month. The company, which has lodged a petition with Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, has agreed to accept the good grains, while contaminated rice will be sent to a warehouse in Suphan Buri, she said. The spokesman was responding to a Facebook post by former Pheu Thai MP Chinanwat Haboonpad who defended the Yingluck administration's rice-pledging scheme. Col Winthai said that "losses" in the rice-pledging scheme were not about money paid to the rice farmers, but were unanticipated costs.

Source: Bangkok Post October 09, 2016 22:30 UTC