If the government can sell this amount of rice, about 6 million tonnes will remain in its warehouses.
Duangporn Rodphaya, director-general of the Foreign Trade Department, said yesterday that 2.18 million tonnes of the total up for auction would be supplied for export and sale via direct purchases by rice traders, 730,000 tonnes would be open for bidding to supply domestic consumption, while the remainder would be rotting rice for supply to feed-meal and other non-food industries