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Rice farmers despair amid low prices

31 October 2016
The Bangkok Post
Agriculture / Crop products and commodities / Domestic investors / Exports / Foreign investors / Imports / Investment / Investment policy and regulation / Rice / Trade / Trade policy and regulation
Apiradi Tantraporn / Crop products and commodities / Exports / Investment policy and regulation / Mana Wuthiyakorn / Rice industry / Sansern Kaewkamnerd / Thailand / trade

Kneeling and sobbing before a top commerce ministry official, a Phichit farmer appealed to the government on October 30 to help growers suffering from the fall in rice prices to 5,000 baht a tonne, the lowest level in decades. Sanit Kaho, a 63-year-old farmer, held the legs ...

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