CHIANG MAI, Sept 17 – About 200 maize farmers rallied at Chiang Mai provincial hall in this northern province today, demanding the government pledge the grain at Bt8-10 per kilogramme.

Farmers from Mae Chaem district, led Mae Chaem corn network leader Uthai Boonthiam, called on the government to set up local depots to buy corn from farmers at Bt8 for maize with 30 per cent moisture content and Bt10 for maize with 14.5 per cent moisture content.

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