No point to pour latex in front of PM's residence : Surat Thani
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Sitthiporn Jariyapong, chairman of the Surat Thani Farmers Council, said he disagreed with the plan to pour latex in front of the house of the prime minister.
However, rubber farmers from Surat Thani will also join the protest. He said the farmers would gather at the Surat Thani Cooperative at noon Wednesday before heading to the prime minister’s residence.
Rubber farmers in the south will march to Bangkok today and stage a protest to demand the government to shore up rubber prices to Bt120 per kilo.
Sitthiporn said the world rubber market price is now Bt140 to Bt150 per kg but Thai middlemen had forced the Thai prices down to only Bt80 to Bt90 and were selling the rubber to Malaysia so as to benefit from high margins.
In Satun, the rubber farmers, led by Satun Rubber Farmers Cooperative chairman Chamnarn Mektrong, gathered at an intersection in Kuan Kalong district at 11.30pm.
About 100 of them travelled in some 60 vehicles to Hat Yai to join the rubber farmers there before heading to Bangkok.
