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BAAC begins subsidy payments to rice farmers
Online Reporters, Published on 20/10/2014
» The state-owned Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) began making one-off cost-subsidy payments to small-holding rice farmers on Monday, with a total 176 million baht to be handed out to 14,000 households in eight provinces.
Prayut defends cash freebie to farmers
Online Reporters, Published on 03/10/2014
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Friday defended his government's plan to dole out cash to farmers but warned them that the freebies are not forever.
Govt to auction 670,000 tonnes of rice
Online Reporters, Published on 13/05/2014
» The Foreign Trade Department will auction off 450,000 tonnes of rice on Wednesday and about 220,000 tonnes on Thursday on the Agricultural Futures Exchange of Thailand (AFET).
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.
Land being re-zoned for sugarcane
Online Reporters, Published on 11/11/2013
» Farm land being inappropriately used to produce rice is being re-zoned for growing sugarcane instead, Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Yukol Limlaemthong said on Monday.
Farmers unhappy with pledging prices
Online Reporters, Published on 04/09/2013
» Rice farmers are not satisfied with new rice pledging prices approved by cabinet yesterday, Wichian Puanglamjiak, chairman of the Thai Farmers Association, said on Wednesday.
Rice pledging prices approved
Online Reporters, Published on 03/09/2013
» The cabinet has approved a total budget of 270 billion baht for the government’s rice pledging scheme, Deputy Commerce Minister Yanyong Puangraj said on Tuesday.
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.
B74bn more for crop pledging scheme
Online Reporters, Published on 12/03/2013
» The cabinet meeting has given the Ministry of Finance approval to guarantee 74.17 billion baht in loans for the Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) to fund the government's price pledging schemes, government spokesman Thosaporn Serirak said on Tuesday.
Crops drying up in Sakon Nakhon
Online Reporters, Published on 19/03/2012
» Farmers cultivating more than 12,000 rai of off-season rice in the northeastern province of Sakon Nakhon are without adequate water for their crops, reports said on Monday.