BANGKOK, Sept 8 – The Yingluck government’s programme to offer credit cards for farmers will be launched by Nov 1, fulfilling one of the major campaign promises that the Pheu Thai Party pledged to the grassroots that helped it win the July election. Luck Wajananawat, manager of the Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Co-operatives (BAAC), […]
BANGKOK, 7 September 2011 (NNT) – Thailand’s Royal Irrigation Department (RID) has expressed concerns over the possibility of additional flooding within the central region in the middle of this month while urging farmers to harvest their crops by 10 September. After meeting with related agencies to evaluate the flood situation, Deputy Director-General of the RID […]
Some 400 landless farmers rallied in front of the Government House Monday morning to demand Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to provide farmland. The members of the so-called People’s Council from 4 Regions rallied on the Phitsanulok Road at 7 am. They occupied one lane of the traffic on the road outside the Government House until […]
The discovery of sizeable quantities of rotten chicken being treated with formalin in Nakhon Ratchasima looks set to expose a large network involved in the illegal business. Nakhon Ratchasima Police deputy commander Colonel Wachirawit Krisrittisak said the quantity of chicken found was so huge it must have come from very big farms. “When chickens fall […]
SURIN : An inexperienced, middle-aged Thai boxer and father-of-two has died after collapsing in a fight for which he was set to be paid just 400 baht. Forty-eight-year-old farmer Songtham Stipa, agreed to the fight as he struggled to meet the expenses of his daughters’ education and care for his wife’s elderly parents and disabled […]
74 reported killed in Burma, with most victims farmers hit by debris falling from hills; North and Bangkok experience some 60 aftershocks following Thursday’s earthquake There were around 60 aftershocks following two major earthquakes in Burma that were felt in Bangkok and Northern Thailand last night, with six of them exceeding 5.0 on the Richter […]
About 1,000 farmers on Monday block the Phitsanulok – Nakhon Sawan road for the second day running, demanding the government raise the guaranteed price of rice for pledged crops to 14,000 baht per tonne. On Sunday, the farmers from the lower northern provinces of Phitsanulok, Sukhothai and Kamphaeng Phet began blocking all four main in-bound […]
BANGKOK, 5 March 2011 (NNT)-The 2nd Thai Royal Army has sent water trucks to help farmers in the Northeastern Thailand cope with the dry season. According to Second Region commander Lt Gen Tawatchai Samutsakorn, 19 provinces in I-San have already been affected by the drought. He stressed that each declared-water crisis province would receive a […]
