Paying Farmers Most Impressive Act Of Ncpo

[Flashermac]

Paying farmers overdue money from the rice-pledging scheme has been the National Council for Peace and Order's (NCPO) most impressive action to date, according to Suan Dusit, with 89 per cent of respondents selecting it.

 

The survey, conducted on 1,556 people from June 16-20, found that the NCPO's next four most impressive actions were the crackdown on illegal weapons, drugs, gambling and influential "mafia" figures (75 per cent), reducing the cost of living including capping gas and oil prices (74 per cent), the investigation into the transparency of state enterprise boards (71 per cent) and the structural reform of the energy sector (64 per cent).

 

 

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So what is the source of the money to pay the farmers?

[Flashermac]

17 June 2014

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's military government has paid rice farmers all the arrears of 92.4 billion baht (S$3.57 billion) owed under a controversial state purchase scheme, a senior official of the bank that funded the programme said on Tuesday.

 

The move ended the government's biggest expenditure on the costly scheme, following a vow by the junta government to halt it for now. Farmers had been waiting for their money since last October. "The government and the BAAC have managed to pay all those 800,000 farmers now and we don't have any plan to spend on buying rice from now on," Mr Supat Eauchai, an executive vice-president of state-owned Bank of Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC), told Reuters.

 

The farmers had been left unpaid for months after former premier Yingluck Shinawatra dissolved Parliament in December, turning her government into a caretaker one that had no power to borrow money to pay off the arrears.

 

 

http://www.straitstimes.com/news/asia/south-east-asia/story/thai-junta-pays-rice-farmers-357-billion-owed-under-state-purchase-s