Farmers happiness index improves from previous year

[webfact]

Farmers happiness index improves from previous year

By THE NATION

 

 

Thai farmers’ happiness index in 2018 has improved from the previous year, according to the survey by Office of Agricultural Economics (OAE).

 

OAE secretary-general Rapheephat Chansriwong revealed on Thursday (December 19) that the OAE has surveyed and compiled the happiness index of Thai farmers nationwide to be used in formulating the agricultural development master plan, which is part of the government’s 12th National Economic and Social Development Plan. “Thai farmers’ happiness index in 2018 stands at 80.29, which indicates a fairly good happiness level, and is a slight increase from the previous year’s at 78.94,” he said.

 

“This happiness index can be broken down into subcategories, each carrying different levels of happiness,” he added. “Aspects that have a high level of happiness include sanitary (98.17) and social (90.98), while happiness in the economic aspect is in middle level (75.27). Aspects that require improvement are environmental (67.18) and educational (54.22).

 

“When divided by region, statistics show that Southern farmers have highest level of happiness at 81.81, followed by Northern (81.67), Central (81.14) and the Northeastern farmers at 79.31,” he said. “Meanwhile, the overall happiness index for the health aspects of farmers nationwide are at excellent level.

 

Pholchet Tracho, director of Agricultural Development and Policy Office, added that the development of farmers’ quality of life must be continuous and maintain the balance across different regions to reduce disparity, especially in the economic aspect.

 

“Farmers should adhere to the principle of the sufficiency economy, which enables them to rely on themselves and reduce their setting up debts,” he said. “Furthermore, educational development must be enforced especially in elderly farmers, so that they can transfer the knowledge and personal experience to new generation farmers with the help of modern technologies.”

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30379655

 

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[unamazedloso]

Are these people on drugs? Is this an index for thai farmers or others?

I run a farm in Thailand and can tell you that all farming aint getting good results this year with less rainfall and an early dry season. 

Aint stopping the ridiculous burning though. Maybe its the fact they are allowed to burn anything and everything? Apparantly there is a close correlation with low IQ and being mesmerized by fire and being a fire bug! If this is the case then i guess this aint fake news!

Oh, maybe because they are all lazy and are still allowed to use chemicals to legally kill their innocent neighbors and family...?

[madmitch]

What a load of old b0ll0cks!

[miamiman123]

Ha!

[klauskunkel]

He is happy because he just heard he will get a rubber pillow from the Heroin Minister:

Agriculture Ministry to produce rubber pillows to help farmers

[thesetat2013]

Haha. My family are farmers and they have never been questioned for this. They are also not very happy people in relation to farming. Prices keep going up but not for what they are selling

[phantomfiddler]

Ve heff vays off mekking you enjoy vashing your buffalo !

[peter14]

Fake news. Ban the thai media. Jail them all 

[TKDfella]

Looks like TAT 6..7..10% increase is contagious, Ha!

[rocketdave]

Do the various government departments ruh a sweepstake to see who can get the biggest BS in the press each month?

[RichardColeman]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Aspects that have a high level of happiness include sanitary (98.17)

Yep, poohing in a ditch and burying it is quite sanitary and makes you happy I guess

[kidneyw]

Glad sanitary is up there. Nothing to do about the manure coming from the Director.

[Dario]

What a complete BS! I wonder who directs them to write such a nonsense. Must come from the Master of Happiness we all know so good. The rice growing season was extremely dry this year without the much needed rain and many, many farmers lost their crop completely. Good times for the rural banks like BAAC and the "pink" bank. They can get the farmers more indebted than most of them are already. Some lucky ones were able to harvest something, but that something didn't bring in enough money to bring them trough the coming year, because the quality of the rice was miserable. We know first hand, because my wife owns two rice harvesters. This rice harvest was very, very bad and the farmers are very, very unhappy.

So, to set the record straight: the farmers "Happiness index" is rapidly declining.

Hey, they wrote the farmers happiness index in 2018   ...   we are writing the year 2019 now, almost gone, though

Edited December 20, 2019 by Dario

[soalbundy]

Just wait for 2020, a German/Israeli team of scientists have prophesied an 80% chance of another dry year for SE Asia.

[GreasyFingers]

7 hours ago, unamazedloso said:

Apparantly there is a close correlation with low IQ and being mesmerized by fire and being a fire bug!

I resemble that remark.

[Chazar]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

“This happiness index can be broken down into subcategories

1. mild bs

2 Medium bs

3 Total and utter  BS

[ParkerN]

I'm old now, but throughout my life I've enjoyed looking at someone's face for signs of good intelligence. So I was interested when this pic was published.

 

Didn't last very long this time though...

Edited December 20, 2019 by ParkerN

[hotchilli]

8 hours ago, unamazedloso said:

Are these people on drugs?

Possibly or just high on their own methane...

But what they definitely should be on is the New Year redundancy list!

If they're really using these statistics to come up with a master plan then the agricultural ministry is in dire straits!

 

[Sydebolle]

Well, in Nong Khai and Buengkan the picture looks slightly different; their happiness index went down with the little water which is left in the Mekong river ???? 

[Srikcir]

9 hours ago, webfact said:

Thai farmers’ happiness index in 2018 has improved from the previous year, according to the survey by Office of Agricultural Economics

Amazing!

Just last week, from "More efforts needed to tackle Thailand's stark inequality"

https://www.nationthailand.com/opinion/30379252

• Increasing incidents of floods and droughts destroy crops and depress the income of farmers who take to the street to seek government assistance.

From "KBank turns cautious in lending to SMEs amid rising bad loans"

https://www.nationthailand.com/business/30379272

• Growth in SME credit next year is expected to be flat, or about 1 to 2 per cent, due to weak consumers' spending especially among farmers who have been hit by falling prices of farm products, drought and the strong baht

And from "Negative factors drag down GDP growth of farm sector"

https://www.nationthailand.com/business/30379601

• The biggest threat to the farm sector lies in the Thai currency surging through the Bt30 per dollar threshold, making Thai produce more expensive than its competitors'.  
• Rice production is expected to drop due to drought while maize production will be hampered by worms. Sugarcane production will decrease while pineapple farmers are expected to reduce plantings due to falling price.  

If this is happy times for the Thai farmers, Prayut might want to rethink what a "sustainable economy" means.

 

[Winky Wilson]

This is a new breed of crop called Ya rice. It makes all the farmers happy.

[NCC1701A]

All the farmers daughters I know their happiness index is way up.

[Odysseus123]

I believe this..

They all seem so extraordinarily happy to me.

 

In fact-when I think about it-the ENTIRE country seems buzzing with happiness, so much so that the happiness data almost matches the pollution stuff..

[Elkski]

It's all a plan.   The people with money want to buy the farm land because they can see how  large con agra business  has taken  Over American farmland.   Grain  production to hog methane  production all owned by the food industry and using Monsanto seeds.   they want large  farms  to  utilize the gigantic mechanized equipment to harvest the crops. This is one reason why the chemical ban was stopped.   We see how much death and fighting over oil but just imagine how much  more serious the fighting will be over drinking water and food in the future. 

One farmer I know in chokchai says the chicken plants farms were getting all the water  this year so it was turned on so late for the small farmer.

Good reason  to order us up some strykers. 

[PEE TEE]

The survey was only done on those who had a win on the lottery  

[Destiny1990]

The best option for our happiness is that we retirees should become farmers !

[DoktorC]

If the farmers are happy now, just wait until they get their free rubber pillow (sorry only 1 per family).  They are going to be ef*ing ecstatic!   555

Edited December 21, 2019 by DoktorC

[30la]

As always: statistics manipulated ...

[Isaanbiker]

They've gotta be kidding! My parents in law are farmers and as poor as mice in churches.

 

  There's no happiness, only when you think being drunk on Lao Khao is happiness. 

 

  Get rid of Pinocchio and they might be happy about it. 

 

  

 

   

Edited December 21, 2019 by Isaanbiker

[ParkerN]

5 hours ago, Isaanbiker said:

They've gotta be kidding! My parents in law are farmers and as poor as mice in churches.

 

  There's no happiness, only when you think being drunk on Lao Khao is happiness. 

 

  Get rid of Pinocchio and they might be happy about it. 

 

  

 

   

I think it's becoming clear that Pinocchio is about as welcome among Thais as he is among the expat community - about the same as a dose of the clap. What puzzles me is why Thais appear to be resolved to do sod all about it.