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Rice farmers seek help with costs
Online Reporters, Published on 07/06/2014
» Rice farmers on Saturday asked for help to control their cultivation costs in a meeting with members of the National Council for Peace and Order(NCPO).
Rubber farmers want Prayuth's help
Online Reporters, Published on 31/05/2014
» Rubber growers in Trang want coup leader Prayuth Chan-ocha to compensate them for the severe rubber price slump.
Farmers happy as rice payments begin
Online Reporters, Published on 26/05/2014
» Indebted farmers celebrated on Monday as long-overdue payments began for pledged rice crops, with the Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) saying 90 billion baht would be paid out in the next month.
Prayuth undertakes to alleviate hardship
Online Reporters, Published on 26/05/2014
» Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha, head of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), on Monday promised to alleviate the people's hardships, with rice farmers high on the list, and then return the country to democracy, but would neither confirm nor deny if he would be interim prime minister.
Kittiratt signs off B20bn rice payments
Online Reporters, Published on 18/03/2014
» A 20-billion-baht budget to pay rice farmers money owed to them under the rice-pledging scheme has been transferred to the Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC), and growers could start to get their cash as soon as Wednesday.
Kittiratt harassed by whistle-blowers
Online Reporters, Published on 16/03/2014
» A group of anti-government whistle-blowers caused a commotion at a football field where caretaker Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Kittiratt Na-Ranong was enjoying himself on Saturday. The incident was recorded on video by one of the whistle-blowers and posted on YouTube.
Narathiwat bombing injures farmer
Online Reporters, Published on 01/03/2014
» A farmer was seriously injured when a bomb went off in his plantation in the southern border province of Narathiwat on Saturday morning, police said.
Rice payment next week
Online Reporters, Published on 01/03/2014
» The caretaker government will next week pay 3,917 farmers owed money under the rice pledging programme since September last year, Commerce Minister Niwatthamrong Bunsongphaisan said on Saturday.
B60bn 'siphoned to Hong Kong' in rice-pledging scam
Online Reporters, Published on 27/02/2014
» Corrupt rice-pledging officials have siphoned 60 billion baht of state cash to Hong Kong through an illegal money exchange network in Yaowarat, a rice miller has claimed.
Drought declared in 15 provinces
Online Reporters, Published on 27/02/2014
» A total of 2,667 villages in 59 districts of 15 provinces have been declared drought disaster zones in need of urgent help, Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department chief Chatchai Promlert announced on Thursday.