THE COMMERCE Ministry will next week seek Cabinet approval for a Bt1.2-billion budget to help 500,000 cassava farmers, and will also ask the Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) to release loans totalling Bt20 billion to help increase

ON A VERY sunny day in March, hundreds of rice farmers in Bangtaen village and nearby areas in Prachin Buri province gathered for a traditional ceremony. They offered food and other items to the rice goddess, celebrating the successful harvest of their fi