41.   Previously, all foreign investment had to be approved by the central government, which turned down requests by local governments for the right to license small projects.

42.   Sunai quoted Paiboon Wattanasiritham, Director-General of the GSB, as saying that such an investment would have no benefit.

43.   Switching investments from time to time, without changing your investment strategy, is not something you would want to do because the investments have different objectives.

44.   This huge investment has had some impressive results.

45.   This investment has to necessarily come from reduced current consumption.

46.   But if unemployment were to be reduced investment had to increase strongly and for a long period.

47.   Pingali said investments would have to focus on infrastructure such as irrigation systems as well as farm-to-market roads and facilities for milling and processing.

48.   The investment has a five-year lock-in period, the company officials said.