AGRICULTURAL NEWS - Travelling in Thailand a few years ago, I took the road from Bangkok towards the Cambodian border, across the farmlands of the south.
Farms of all types could be seen on both sides of the road: rice fields, banana and other fruit farms, vegetable lands, and large fish ponds.
Many people were working these farms, and most were distinctly poor in economic terms.
What was immediately noticeable, though, was the lack of fencing.
I asked my host how much of their yields producers lost through theft. He looked at me, horrified; very little theft took place, he said, because the Thai are honourable people.
