Illegally held Sor Por Kor land plots will be taken back and re-allocated to the landless poor

[webfact]

Illegally held Sor Por Kor land plots will be taken back and re-allocated to the landless poor

 

 

Thailand’s deputy Agriculture Minister Thammanat Promphao has vowed to seize all the Sor Por Kor land plots, or land plots which should be allocated by the state to landless farmers under the Land Reform Program, and reallocate them to the landless.

 

The deputy agriculture minister said Sunday that he had set up a committee to solve the problem of Sor Por Kor land plots across the country, many of which are being held by non-farmers and those who have used the land for other purposes, such as building resorts.

 

He said that land illegally held by non-farmers must first be confiscated and then be redistributed to the landless, mainly for agricultural purposes or for community tourism if the land is not suitable for farming, but an approval is needed from a committee which is yet to be set up.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/illegally-held-sor-por-kor-land-plots-will-be-taken-back-and-re-allocated-to-the-landless-poor/

 

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[mikebell]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

should be allocated by the state to landless farmers

But will it?  I suspect the main beneficiaries will be local hi-sos

[Damrongsak]

5 minutes ago, mikebell said:

But will it?  I suspect the main beneficiaries will be local hi-sos

They will nose in and "help" the landless farmers develop the land.  Title or rights to the land may go to the poor farmers.  They will sell out to the first city-slicker who comes by. 

[colinneil]

So Thammanat says illegally held land will be given to landless farmers.

What about the land illegally held by hi-so officials and government cronies?

[Cadbury]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

He said that land illegally held by non-farmers must first be confiscated and then be redistributed to the landless

Two things will surely happen.

1. The newly formed committee will be paid handsomely to let the matter pass into history without another word.

2. The current "owners" will have to pay some more money to the corrupt officials + the committee to keep what's not theirs.

[snowgard]

3 hours ago, Cadbury said:

Two things will surely happen.

1. The newly formed committee will be paid handsomely to let the matter pass into history without another word.

2. The current "owners" will have to pay some more money to the corrupt officials + the committee to keep what's not theirs.

And after some month the new farmers are in need for money to pay their debts back and will sell the land AGAIN!!!

[mtls2005]

11 hours ago, webfact said:

Thailand’s deputy Agriculture Minister Thammanat Promphao ...

 

 

This chap has quite the "origin story"...

 

From sinister to minister: politician's drug trafficking jail time revealed

 

However, the Herald and The Age can reveal that a newly appointed senior member of Thailand’s ruling party spent four years in a Sydney jail in the 1990s for his role in trafficking 3.2 kilograms of heroin into Australia. He was deported on his release from Parklea prison.

 

Thammanat Prompao, a key ally of top generals and an enforcer in the coalition cabinet, was a young soldier known as Manat Bophlom when he pleaded guilty in the NSW District Court to conspiracy to import a commercial quantity of heroin with a street value of up to $4.1 million.

 

https://amp.smh.com.au/national/from-sinister-to-minister-politician-s-drug-trafficking-jail-time-revealed-20190906-p52opz.html?__twitter_impression=true