Farmers in Phichit plan to head to Bangkok this week with the ultimate goal of ousting the government, which they blame for long delayed payments for their rice in the pledging scheme. “We will mobilise hundreds of farm vehicles in our march to the capital,” Northern Farmers Network chairman Kittisak Rattanawaraha said yesterday. Read more: […]
BANGKOK, 21 January 2014 (NNT) – The Thai Rice Growers Association has consulted with the Lawyers’ Council of Thailand to bring civil and criminal charges against the government after the latter failed to pay farmers in the rice support scheme. President of the Thai Rice Growers Association Prasit Boonchuey and representatives of rice farmers nationwide […]
BANGKOK, 21 January 2014 (NNT) – The Election Commission (EC) has announced that it has no power to consider changes made to the rice support program’s finances, saying it is the responsibility of the government to decide on the matter. EC Secretary-General Phuchong Nutrawong said the EC meeting on Tuesday agreed the commission could not […]
Commerce Minister Niwatthamrong Boonsongpaisan said yesterday the caretaker government needs 180 billion baht to pay farmers who have sold rice to the government under the rice pledging scheme. Niwatthamrong disclosed the figures of funds to be used to fund its rice pleding scheme for the 2013/2014 harvest crop year as the caretaker Finance Minister Kittirat […]
Farmers from five lower northern and central provinces will march into the capital over the next few days if their demand for the rice payment is still not met by the government. Farmer leader Kittisak Ratanawarahal, president of the Network for Northern Farmers, said farmers from Phichit, Nakhon Sawan, Sukhothai, Kamphaeng Phet, and Phitsanulok will […]
Farmers from five northern provinces will blockade the Asian Highway and heighten their protest to oust the caretaker government after the government failed to pay them as promised today. Farmer leader Kittisak Ratanawaraha, president of the Network for Northern Farmers, said now farmers from Phichit, Nakhon Sawan, Sukhothai, Kamphaengpet and Phitsanulok are prepared for the […]
(9 January) Hundreds of farmers in Buriram province have gathered to demand the payment for the rice they had sold to the government’s rice-pledging scheme months ago. Approximately 2,000 farmers from Mueang district and Lamplaimas district rallied in front of the Buriram City Hall today. Read more: khaosod.co.th
PHICHIT, 7 January 2014 (NNT) – Rice growers from five lower Northern provinces have blocked a major highway in Phichit in a bid to pressure the government to speed up payment owed under the rice-pledging scheme. About 500 farmers from Phitsanulok, Nakhon Sawan, Phichit, Sukhothai and Kamphaeng Phet have sealed off highway number 117, which […]
