Rice farmers to get payments next week, Yingluck assures

[Baerboxer]

Next week will be interesting then. YL must know the consequences of failing to deliver on this latest promise. Is it a coincidence big brother is in Myammar and met with a group of clan cronies?

If payments are made then it will be very interesting to see where the money comes from (but it will probably be another state secret); and interesting to hear why some farmers have been waiting since September.

This regime does nothing unless forced into it or for its own agenda.

[mightyatom]

Krung Thai someone else mentioned . . . not sure if true or not.

Well on the Thailand News thread yesterday was an MCOT report that farmers have threatened KrungThai Bank that if they did not approve loan extensions on their loans, they would withdraw all their deposits.

I had to laugh considering if they actually had any deposited money to withdraw, why are they in need of loan extensions in the first place?

[louse1953]

The cheque is in the mail.

[JesseFrank]

Krung Thai someone else mentioned . . . not sure if true or not.

Well on the Thailand News thread yesterday was an MCOT report that farmers have threatened KrungThai Bank that if they did not approve loan extensions on their loans, they would withdraw all their deposits.

I had to laugh considering if they actually had any deposited money to withdraw, why are they in need of loan extensions in the first place?

I noticed that report yesterday as well and was thinking, if krungThai approves a 130 Billion non-performing loan, there might be no money left to withdraw.

I think it's called the Som Nam Naa syndrome

[louse1953]

If it is true it is really bad news for Suthep as the farmers were just about his last straw.

Yingluck drew the short straw when she took on the job at bro bidding.Easy when handing out promises,not so easy paying for them.If it is true!!!55555

[louse1953]

"Yeah, I sent the check already. You didn't get it yet?"

"No, I didn't get it yet."

"Ok, let me check with the mail. Sometimes they are slow. I can't believe you didn't get it yet."

.......... "My brother got his."

Where does he live , interested to know ...

Hard to keep track of,always on the move.Hoped to come home for Songkran to eat somtam,but unlikely now.You may see him in PP,with his good friend.

[louse1953]

How many people on TV are actually affected by the issue?

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Me.

[Showbags]

"Yeah, I sent the check already. You didn't get it yet?"

"No, I didn't get it yet."

"Ok, let me check with the mail. Sometimes they are slow. I can't believe you didn't get it yet."

and then to continue the game...'ok, let me cancel that one if it has been lost at your end by the post and we will issue a new one, just a few days.'

[Thait Spot]

I doubt very much that the overall amount and sheer volume of payments can be made on Monday

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[casualbiker]

If the government are paying BUT have Ltd funds with more coming. Why don't they agree with the farmers to pay 50% now. And 50% in 1 or 2 months. At least that way most if not all farmers will actually be able to continue farming!

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[Soutpeel]

next week could be interesting then....either YK pays some of the farmers and things cool off a little on that front or come Monday night a sh*tstorm will be going on

Surely YK would be that stupid as to lie about the 17th would she ?

[Skint]

How many people on TV are actually affected by the issue?

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How many comments have you posted on other issues that affect you?

Nice post I am only interested in this topic, do you just get upset over your feelings about the issue or are you involved directly by this?

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[Skint]

How many people on TV are actually affected by the issue?

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Me.

In what way?

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[JesseFrank]

I doubt very much that the overall amount and sheer volume of payments can be made on Monday

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There is no doubt if the overall amount is enough or not

Amid the ongoing protests by farmers who have not received their rice compensations, the prime minister during a trip to Ayutthaya, reassured growers that the government would start making payments to the farmers from Feb 17 onwards.

The cabinet earlier gave approval to a 712 million baht budget which will be allocated to farmers waiting for their September 2013 payment.

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/704416-yingluck-told-of-unpredictable-and-uncontrollable-consequence-if-farmers-lose-patience/?p=7437506

[tomacht8]

How many people on TV are actually affected by the issue?

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Guess there will be 3 groups:

1. TV members who pay taxes in Thailand.

2. TV members married with Thai family and have childrens here.

3. TV members which have enough of liars, thieves and murderers which destroy the morale.

This reflected from top to bottom, so that the awareness of right and wrong disappears.

That will affect you then in daily life. About cheatings and scammings you can read here every day.

[wjhall]

The check is in the mail. No really it is.

BUT the post office has been told not to deliver it yet!!!

[tromboneman]

Why would they post that picture if it didn't have anything to do with the article? It stirs up gossip or . . . .

[Jonmarleesco]

'The ... optimist expects it [the wind] to change; the realist adjusts the sails.' [William Arthur Ward]

[Thait Spot]

I doubt very much that the overall amount and sheer volume of payments can be made on Monday

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There is no doubt if the overall amount is enough or not

Amid the ongoing protests by farmers who have not received their rice compensations, the prime minister during a trip to Ayutthaya, reassured growers that the government would start making payments to the farmers from Feb 17 onwards.

The cabinet earlier gave approval to a 712 million baht budget which will be allocated to farmers waiting for their September 2013 payment.

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/704416-yingluck-told-of-unpredictable-and-uncontrollable-consequence-if-farmers-lose-patience/?p=7437506

So that's about 0.3% of the required amount.

Or around 5,000 farmers

Good luck with that.

Yingluck could do a lot worse than hiring Suthep as fundraiser.

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[ikurauni]

We will see if the farmers get paid next week. It sounds like another BS statement but we will see. They can even specify the amount. It could be a joke.

But if the farmers get paid, that would be great. They need the money. If they don't get paid, no one will trust the government anymore.

[monkey4u]

The government owned Ag Bank again. Lordy I wonder how deep into this the Ag Bank is. The stories keep changing, but if the worse case scenarios are to be believed, this will make it about 1 trillion baht, secured by way overpriced and rotting rice.

And notice she said payments will begin next week. How much?

Maybe 1 baht for ever 100.000 baht

[Dogmatix]

"Yingluck said details about the amounts to be paid would be revealed later."

The devil’s always in those little details.

[Dogmatix]

Ang Thong Governor Pawin Chamniprasart said he had no authority to look into mysterious night-time deliveries of rice in and out of a warehouse in Ang Thong, as it was likely privately-owned and likely not part of the rice-pledging scheme.

Sounds like he knows dam_n well that the warehouse is part of the rice-pledging scheme and probably knows exactly what is going on too.

The sooner Thailand gets rid of appointed provincial governors reporting to the Interior MInister the better.

[oldthaihand99]

The saddest thing is that even if they pay the farmers everything they owe tomorrow, they have wasted so much money and the farmers are no closer to being self sufficient than they were 5 years ago. Think of how all that money wasted could have been used to teach and implement new agricultural techniques and crops diversification. Instead PTP has created an army of destitute farmers who are even more dependent on handouts from the government just to survive.

SHAME on you Thaksin and Yingluck. You have failed your people.

Wasn't creating (continuing, actually) an "army of destitute farmers who are even more dependent on handouts from the government just to survive" the whole point?

"In 2011 Veerapong Ramangkul, a broadly and highly respected economist, wrote the following about the rice scam. "All agricultural produce-pledging programmes implemented since 1986 have met with abject failure, wasting a huge amount of public money, with most of the benefits going to a select group of millers and exporters, ministers and politicians while the farmers got only crumbs." "

[Mosha]

The problem could be, given the farmers have had to borrow money, due to non payment. Will the government pay interest on the debt they owe the farmers.

[Shaunduhpostman]

A 712 million baht budget has been approved to pay the farmers what they are owed? Are you kidding me?

[Bluespunk]

Ang Thong Governor Pawin Chamniprasart said he had no authority to look into mysterious night-time deliveries of rice in and out of a warehouse in Ang Thong, as it was likely privately-owned and likely not part of the rice-pledging scheme.

Sounds like he knows dam_n well that the warehouse is part of the rice-pledging scheme and probably knows exactly what is going on too.

The sooner Thailand gets rid of appointed provincial governors reporting to the Interior MInister the better.

wonder who the private owner is?

[JesseFrank]

I once owned a bar in Pattaya, and we had a sign all the time that said :

Tomorrow free beer

[tominbkk]

How many people on TV are actually affected by the issue?

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Me.

I feel it every time I pay a high amount of taxes to work here. Happy to pay taxes, but frustrated to see how this govt. wastes nearly every Baht of it.

[Mosha]

After this is sorted out, will the farmers continue to sell rice on a promise? We sell rubber cash in hand. and rubber has a few months shelf life