"Rice Farmers"

Rice farmers will receive subsidies of Bt500 per rai, up to a maximum Bt10,000, on December 1 this year, the Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) said on Thursday.

The Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) has warned its customers of several fake Line accounts under the bank’s name attempting to scam customers into inputting their personal data.

Drought-hit rice farmers in Nakhon Ratchasima province are once again staring at an uncertain future as rainfall in the current season is far short of the normal.

The National Rice Policy Committee has earmarked about Bt100 billion to provide subsidies for rice farmers for the 2020-2021 crop year.

Finance Minister Uttama Savanayana is confident that 40,000 retailers, restaurateurs and service agencies will soon be signed up for the government’s “Eat, Shop, Use” tourism-stimulus campaign now that 32,000 have already registered.

A WATER SHORTAGE is threatening to soon strike several northeastern provinces.

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha suggested rice farmers on Friday curb their output in order to prevent oversupply and falling prices.

Tesco Lotus says it has bought 150 tonnes of low-GI rice to offer healthier choices for consumers and to support rice farmers.

ALIBABA'S ONLINE market may help Thai fruit farmers increase their incomes but rice farmers may not have much to gain due to oversupply in the global market, an economist said.

THE THAI Rice Exporters Association will subsidise Northeastern farmers at Bt200 per rai for no more than 10 rai each in an effort to help reduce harvest costs.

A SOLUTION to lift Thai rice farmers out of a low-income trap has edged closer to reality with a German-Thai rice programme that showed “great promise” in the Northeast, the heartland of jasmine rice.

FORMER prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra yesterday called for “systematic” assistance for rice farmers to help make them become self-reliant.