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Pracha: Rubber growers in North, Northeast won't join protest
Online Reporters, Published on 29/08/2013
» Rubber growers in northern and northeastern Thailand have agreed not to take part in the threatened mass protest against low rubber prices on Sept 3, Deputy Prime Minister Pracha Promnok said on Thursday.
Business puts rally damage at B100m
Online Reporters, Published on 27/08/2013
» The farmers' protest against low rubber prices in Nakhon Si Thammarat has cost the industrial sector in the province an estimated 100 million baht in lost shipments, Yutthakij Manachit, chairman of Nakhon Si Thammarat Federation of Industries, said on Tuesday.
Nan, Buriram rubber farmers to rally
Online Reporters, Published on 27/08/2013
» Rubber farmer's groups in the northern province of Nan and north eastern province of Buriram on Tuesday confirmed that they intend to join a nationwide rally against low rubber prices on Sept 3.
Rubber protesters dig in, demand better prices
Online Reporters, Published on 27/08/2013
» The government will not use force to disperse the protesters blocking both the Asian Highway and southern railway line in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Prime Minister's deputy secretary-general Suporn Atthawong said on Tuesday.
Rubber farmers warn of mass protest
Online Reporters, Published on 25/08/2013
» Rubber farmers from northern Thailand plan to stage a mass protest on Sept 3 if the government does nothing to prevent rubber prices from sliding further.
Maize farmers protest in Phetchabun
Online Reporters, Published on 19/08/2013
» About 800 corn farmers gathered in front of the government offices complex in Muang district of Phetchabun province on Monday in protest against the low price received for their crops.
Angry farmers to rally at Government House
Online Reporters, Published on 24/06/2013
» Farmers from about 40 provinces plan to gather in front of Government House on Tuesday, demanding that the rice-pledging price be maintained at 15,000 baht per tonne until at least the end of this crop season, Pheu Thai MP for Ayuthaya Witthaya Buranasiri said on Monday.
200 million wasps to fight coconut pest
Online Reporters, Published on 22/05/2013
» A total of 211 million parasitoid wasps will be released nationwide to fight an insect pest that has destroyed large areas of coconut plantations throughout the country, the Agricultural Extension Department announced.
Low rubber price hurts South
Online Reporters, Published on 28/04/2013
» The declining price of natural rubber has caused a recession in the economy of the southern region, Perk Lertpanwong, chairman of the Rubber Farmers Association of Thailand, said on Sunday.
Rubber farmers plan big rally
Online Reporters, Published on 21/04/2013
» The president of the Para Rubber Growers Co-operative Federation of Thailand on Sunday announced he will mobilise growers nationwide for a mass rally in Bangkok this month to bring the government’s attention to the plummeting price of rubber.