Agriculture should be priority: academic
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The Prayut government is urged to place its priority in assisting the agricultural sector, as it is the hardest hit by the economic slowdown, said an academic from the Thailand Development Research Centre.
Meanwhile, drought is likely to exacerbate difficulties in the sector, added Yongyuth Chalamwong, TDRI's research director for labour.
He referred to the latest employment data from the National Statistical Office which shows 38.33 million Thais were employed as of the third quarter of 2015, a decrease by 0.2 per cent or 90,000 from the same period a year earlier. At least 500,000 in the agricultural sector lost their jobs.
