Seventh suicide attributed to lack of rice-pledging payments

I know many farmers lack much formal education but to believe in a scheme that offered to pay them 50% more than the market price for their rice was ever going to be more than a scam was being naive in the extreme. They should have just sold their rice to the brokers at the market price at harvest time.

+1.

Virtually everyone around here (Udon) did just that, inc. my missus. As she said at the time, if it's too good to be true, it probably aint (true). In fact i do not know of anyone up here who has taken part in the scheme. Everyone just sold their rice at the normal prices it's been for a few years, and everyone got paid on the day. Maybe the millers cashed in, dunno...