Ln another he orders the precise opposite: he throttles rapioca exports through the unjustifiable practice of allocating quotas, costing an estimated billions of baht in export earnings, and depriving the country’s poorst farmers of a large chunk of hard-found income. No one picks up the issue because million of farmers struggling in poverty in remote areas cannot command the same media attention as one steuggling in poverty in remote areas cannot command the same media attention as one stock investor who shot himself in the middle of Bangkok. Mr. Chucheep is not even obliged to give coherent explanation, and so he rambles on about Philippine rice farmers and rubber prices as if that had anything to do with tapioca..