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Free-range duck raisers also hit by drought
Chinnawat Singha, Published on 21/07/2019
» PHITSANULOK: The ongoing dry spell has affected not only rice-growing farmers but also free-ranging duck raisers who say they are producing fewer and smaller eggs than usual, according to farmers in this central northern province.
River overflows, floods 4,500 rai in Phitsanulok
Chinnawat Singha, Published on 20/09/2016
» PHITSANULOK - The old Yom River burst its banks and flooded thousands of rai of farmland in Muang district on Tuesday, turning it into a vast lake.
Rice growers drilling wells in dry riverbed
Chinnawat Singha, Published on 20/01/2016
» Some rice farmers in Phitsanulok province are drilling wells in their dry riverbed to get around the Irrigation Department's warning not to grow off-season crops due to the water shortage, insisting it's the only livelihood they know.
Cheated 'Rice Berry' farmers paid
Chinnawat Singha, Published on 09/02/2015
» PHITSANULOK - A group of farmers who delivered their crops of a new strain of grain, Rice Berry, to a wholesaler but did not get paid have finally received the first down payment on their harvests.
Phitsanulok farmers turn to Facebook to sell rice
Chinnawat Singha, Published on 29/10/2014
» PHITSANULOK - A rice farmer in Bang Krathum district has turned a crisis into an opportunity after she was tricked into growing a breed of rice by a prospective buyer who did not bother showing up.
Farmers try to help those most desperate
Chinnawat Singha, Published on 19/02/2014
» PHITSANULOK — While some desperate farmers are taking to the streets of Bangkok to try to get money from the government, one group has taken to the streets of central Phitsanulok to seek donations to buy food for their families, but they've had to fight some suspicions that they are not "real farmers".
Farmers end protest in Phitsanulok
Chinnawat Singha, Published on 28/01/2014
» PHITSANULOK ― Rice farmers on Tuesday agreed to end their rally at the Indochina intersection in Muang district after a two-day protest demanding the caretaker government pay them for crops pledged under the government's subsidy scheme.
Residents pin hopes on govt's Bang Rakam model
News, Chinnawat Singha, Published on 19/03/2012
» Residents in flood-prone Bang Rakam district of Phitsanulok are pinning their hopes on a government water management plan to help keep them dry this year.