Farmers handed irrigation jobs to boost income during crisis

[snoop1130]

Farmers handed irrigation jobs to boost income during crisis

By The Nation

 

 

The Royal Irrigation Department will take on another 60,000 extra temporary staff in a bid to generate income and employment for farmers during the Covid-19 crisis.

 

The temporary irrigation workers will earn Bt8,000 per month.

 

The government has approved a budget of Bt4.49 million for the department to hire 88,838 farmers around the country, deputy government spokeswoman Ratchada Thanadirek said on Thursday (April 23).

 

Since the application opened in March, the department has hired 28,623 farmers – 32 per cent of the target number.

 

Their duties include maintenance, dredging to improve irrigation channels, construction at water sources for irrigation systems, water quality management, and disaster prevention and mitigation.

 

The period of employment will be 3-7 months at Bt377.85 a day or Bt8,000 a month.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30387071

 

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[Burma Bill]

Why not temporary employ those who have lost their jobs and have NO income, rather than employ farmers to BOOST their income??

[hotchilli]

16 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The period of employment will be 3-7 months at Bt377.85 a day or Bt8,000 a month

How many hours per day... 6-8-10-12? if I may enquire

[hotchilli]

1 minute ago, Burma Bill said:

Why not temporary employ those who have lost their jobs and have NO income, rather than employ farmers to BOOST their income??

I've never met a night girl who's good with a shovel yet, unless it's digging for gold!

[dinsdale]

So what happened to the Bt15,000. More pie in the sky lies from the top.

[Crossy]

My ageing brain read the headline as "Farmers handed immigration jobs to boost income during crisis".

 

[ramrod711]

The farmers have the most to gain from improved irrigation infrastructure. I think it's a good move for the government to create work for people. Look at all the good things that Roosevelt did to help the unemployed in the depression.

[Artisi]

3 hours ago, hotchilli said:

How many hours per day... 6-8-10-12? if I may enquire

more than you're prepared to work for that amount.

[Artisi]

3 hours ago, hotchilli said:

I've never met a night girl who's good with a shovel yet, unless it's digging for gold!

and they have a better tool than a shovel.......

[hotchilli]

2 hours ago, Artisi said:

and they have a better tool than a shovel.......

A bucket?

[Grumpy John]

Only reason would be the farmers are shovel ready.   No need to employ teachers to teach the inexperienced how best to work a shovel.  So after they get the rice subsidy...or corn,  or tapioca or sugar and the mythical 15.000 x 3 they get a job for a few months.  And if they catch on to how the government workers attack a job 1 to 5.  One working with 5 resting under a tree. ????

[tifino]

give them some plastic explosives... and burrow their way up to those Chinese dams

[Artisi]

40 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

A bucket?

For some - yes ????????????

[kickstart]

52 minutes ago, Grumpy John said:

Only reason would be the farmers are shovel ready.   No need to employ teachers to teach the inexperienced how best to work a shovel.  So after they get the rice subsidy...or corn,  or tapioca or sugar and the mythical 15.000 x 3 they get a job for a few months.  And if they catch on to how the government workers attack a job 1 to 5.  One working with 5 resting under a tree. ????

Farmers are not getting the 5000 baht/month ,and some of there  family members , like the wives daughter and granddaughters.

And no subsidy on corn or cassava. and the cane subsidy this  year was not worth a lot. 

As  most farmers will be rice farmers with no rice to plant until about July  ,not a bad idea ,give them some work.