BANGKOK, Oct 25 – The Thai government on Tuesday approved a plan to import food and drinking water to ease current and anticipated shortages following the worst flood in the nation’s history, according to Permanent-Secretary for Commerce Yanyong Phuangrach.

The shortages have occurred after the flood hit factories in seven industrial estates, leaving them submerged, so that both production and distribution of goods face transport difficulties because many roads are cut due to the flood, and a panicked populace is stockpiling food and drinking water.

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