BANGKOK, June 3 – The Government Savings Bank (GSB) won the bid to lend Bt50 billion to the government’s rice-pledging scheme with its historically low interest rate of 2.17 per cent. Chularat Suteethorn, director-general of the Public Debt Management Office (PDMO), said the bidding contest attracted 12 contenders that offered combined credits worth Bt145 billion. […]
PHETCHABURI, May 27 – Thai rice growers are happily receiving money for their pledged rice on the second day of the payment procedures ordered by the coup council, and farmer representatives thanked it for taking good care of the farmers. Rawee Rungruang, chair of the Thai Farmers Network and a farmers’ network in Phetchaburi province, […]
BANGKOK, May 26 – The military and the Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) plan to clear all overdue payment obligations amounting to at more Bt90 billion for the rice that farmers have long pledged with the government within June. Maj Gen Chartchai Onnuam, director-general of the Veterinary and Remount Department, and BAAC president […]
BANGKOK, 19 April 2014 (NNT) – The Commerce Ministry will borrow 40 billion baht more from the Central Fund in order to pay rice growers participating in the government’s rice pledging program. According to Deputy Commerce Minister Yanyong Puangrach, the government has been asked by the Thai Farmers Association to speedily make disbursements to unpaid […]
BANGKOK, 20 March 2014 (NNT) – A new network of farmers from the western region has mobilized their supporters to Bangkok in a bid to pressure for the resignation of the current administration. Farmers from Ratchaburi, Phetchaburi and other rice-growing provinces head towards the Government Complex in Bangkok in a procession of over 50 motorized […]
BANGKOK, March 13 – Farmers rallying at the Finance Ministry were dissatisfied with their discussions with officials, and in frustration dumped rice obstructing five of the ministry’s six entrances. The farmers were unhappy, for the ministry did not buy the rice as asked by the farmers, and they also threw rotten eggs and fermented fish […]
Farmers cut power supply at Commerce Ministry, disrupting 240,000 tonnes rice auction via AFET, bidding reset for March 26. News source: MCOT
BANGKOK, March 5 – A prosecutor filed a lawsuit against caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and six others at the Administrative Court on Wednesday asking the court to order them to pay Bt2.7 million plus interest in overdue payments to a group of 22 farmers from Kanchanaburi province. Another group of farmers will follow suit. […]
