Farmers dump paddy at farmers’ bank, burn effigy at Yingluck's home

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Farmers dump paddy at farmers’ bank, burn effigy at Yingluck's home



BANGKOK: -- Angry farmers yesterday burned the effigy of caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra in front of her home to pressure speedy payment for their pledged paddy.

Another group of farmers led by Luang Poo Buddha-issara also led farmers to the Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives and dumped paddy in front of its head-office.

The first group of farmers left the Commerce Ministry where they hold out for a month to the caretaker premier’s home on Soi Yothinpattana to demand her to speed up payment for their rice.

Yingluck was not at home but having a meeting with her cabinet in Sampran, Nakhon Pathom.

After a brief verbal attack on loudspeakers, they then burnt the effigy of caretaker prime minister made with rice straw in a curse and then returned.

Meanwhile the farmers led by the abbot also went to the BAAC head-office with 16 tons of paddy and rice.

The farmers dumped some of the paddy in front of the lawn and demanded the BAAC to buy their paddy and rice which they said have just been withdrawn from government warehouse at 12,000 baht/ton for rice.

Luang Poo Buddha-issara said since the BAAC has said it has enough cash to buy paddy from farmers, then they came here to sell them to the bank.

He demanded the bank to buy at 13,000 baht/ton saying farmer withdrawn from warehouse at 12,000 baht.

However the bank’s executive who came out to negotiate later agreed to buy only at 8,000 baht/ton just for white rice while it did not want the paddy.

The farmers led by the abbot then returned and left the paddy at the bank’s headoffice with a check valued at 160,000 baht to be payable on Monday.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/farmers-dump-paddy-farmers-bank-burn-effigy-yinglucks-home/


-- Thai PBS 2014-03-12

[khwaibah]

Lies like dormant syphilis from the government.

[TVGerry]

Shins screw these farmers but the Red sympathizers are going to call them 'fake' farmers.

[Costas2008]

Give her credit........she doesn't look like the effigy, where is the Louis Vuitton bag?

[Zpete]

What is "Paddy"?

In relation to what is mentioned in this post.

Paddy is a rice growing paddock.

Paddy is an Irish person

Edited March 12, 2014 by Mario2008
colour changed to black for readability

[PepperMe]

He demanded the bank to buy at 13,000 baht/ton saying farmer withdrawn from warehouse at 12,000 baht.

However the bank’s executive who came out to negotiate later agreed to buy only at 8,000 baht/ton just for white rice while it did not want the paddy.

So in other words, when the taxpayer is footing the bill, paddy is worth 15,000 and the BAAC are happy to pay it out considering they are on a % cut of all transfers to farmers.

Yet when it is them paying with their own money, they clearly acknowledge that actual milled and processed white rice is only worth 8000 baht/MT. God only knows what actual value they put on paddy then.... 6000 baht/MT perhaps?

Hopefully that 160K baht will fund more farmers' trips to the capital.

I hope they take the airports for real this time. I am fully aware of the negative impact on Thailand, but this seems to be the only way to bring this whole affair to a real conclusion...... Desperate times requires desperate action. This has dragged on long enough.

It is about time this whole mess was put to bed once and for all.

[Pib]

Give her credit........she doesn't look like the effigy, where is the Louis Vuitton bag?

Yinluck wouldn't be caught dead in straw and denim.

[Katipo]

What is "Paddy"?

In relation to what is mentioned in this post.

Paddy is a rice growing paddock.

Paddy is an Irish person

rice, especially in the husk, either uncut or gathered.

[Lite Beer]

Farmers burn effigies of Kittirat, Niwatthamlong

Upset by the caretaker government’s delayed payment and ignorance of their troubles, angry farmers today burned the effigies of two cabinet ministers and then dumped them into the Chao Phraya river in an ancient Cambodian superstitious rite to curse them.

Farmers today burnt the effigies of finance minister Kittirat na Ranong and commerce minister Niwatthamlong Boonsongpaisan in front of the Commerce Ministry in a Khmer superstitious rite to curse the two politicians. The effigies were made of rice straws.

In performing what they said was an ancient Cambodian superstitious curse, the two effigies have their heads cut off with a sickle first and the bodies were lit with fire. After the effigies were burnt to ashes, they put the ashes into an earthen pot and then dumped into the Chao Phraya river which is behind the ministry.

Farmers also put pressure on working commercial officials to return home today

They first planned to dump paddy in front of the ministry same as their colleagues yesterday to the Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives when they dumped 16 tons of paddy in a sarcastic protest against the bank. However they called off the plan and performed the cursing rite instead.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/farmers-burn-effigies-kittirat-niwatthamlong/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=farmers-burn-effigies-kittirat-niwatthamlong

-- Thai PBS 2014-03-12

[Costas2008]

Why didn't they do the same cursing rite on Yingluck's effigy?

You never know.......may be would have worked!

[GuestHouse]

Obviously not the deliriously happy and contented farmers from Nakhon Sawan then.

[DirtFarmer]

And the Buddha still has his frock...? Hasn't been de-frocked yet...? How many weeks now... LMAO... we live in a bloody cartoon!

edit " an ancient Cambodian superstitious rite to curse them." that might not work here...

Edited March 12, 2014 by DirtFarmer

[djjamie]

Words - This is an agricultural subsidy scheme that is not designed to make money, but is to benefit the farmers.

Actions - Look at the OP above

Words - The rice scheme benefits the country as a whole

Actions - See below graph of rice exporting comparisons over the past few years.

Moral of the story. Actions speak louder than words.

Edited March 12, 2014 by djjamie

[Bangmod]

The farmers led by the abbot then returned and left the paddy at the bank’s headoffice with a check valued at 160,000 baht to be payable on Monday.

​Right….. by monday the check will bounce "oops I did it again", Yingluck will sing and dance on her desk……..

Edited March 12, 2014 by Bangmod

[northernjohn]

And the Buddha still has his frock...? Hasn't been de-frocked yet...? How many weeks now... LMAO... we live in a bloody cartoon!

edit " an ancient Cambodian superstitious rite to curse them." that might not work here...

It might I believe that area was once part of the Khmer empire.

[ramrod711]

In performing what they said was an ancient Cambodian superstitious curse, the two effigies have their heads cut off with a sickle first and the bodies were lit with fire. After the effigies were burnt to ashes, they put the ashes into an earthen pot and then dumped into the Chao Phraya river which is behind the ministry.

If either of those guys are even half as superstitious as my wife, they're at the Wat right now.

[siampolee]

I am now waiting to hear from those ardent supporters of the P.T.P. and the Shinwatra clan to inform us that those protesting farmers are all paid stooges of Suthep or they are in fact holograms projected on site so as to tarnish the lily white virginal image both the members of the P.T.P. and its policies.

[MunterHunter]

I am now waiting to hear from those ardent supporters of the P.T.P. and the Shinwatra clan to inform us that those protesting farmers are all paid stooges of Suthep or they are in fact holograms projected on site so as to tarnish the lily white virginal image both the members of the P.T.P. and its policies.

Not gunna happen... all the Red sycophants are over on the Suthep's last push headline thread complaining that they are bored of the headline etc... They wouldnt dare come onto a thread that they would clearly lose the debate

[winstonc]

He demanded the bank to buy at 13,000 baht/ton saying farmer withdrawn from warehouse at 12,000 baht.

However the bank’s executive who came out to negotiate later agreed to buy only at 8,000 baht/ton just for white rice while it did not want the paddy.

So in other words, when the taxpayer is footing the bill, paddy is worth 15,000 and the BAAC are happy to pay it out considering they are on a % cut of all transfers to farmers.

Yet when it is them paying with their own money, they clearly acknowledge that actual milled and processed white rice is only worth 8000 baht/MT. God only knows what actual value they put on paddy then.... 6000 baht/MT perhaps?

Hopefully that 160K baht will fund more farmers' trips to the capital.

I hope they take the airports for real this time. I am fully aware of the negative impact on Thailand, but this seems to be the only way to bring this whole affair to a real conclusion...... Desperate times requires desperate action. This has dragged on long enough.

It is about time this whole mess was put to bed once and for all.

they should have closed the airport 3wks ago until their red leader said were guna be paid.turn around somchai all is well in lala land again .its never to late..just do it and finish this mess once and for all..

[lostmebike]

That's supposed to be an effigy of Yingluck???

[Soutpeel]

I am now waiting to hear from those ardent supporters of the P.T.P. and the Shinwatra clan to inform us that those protesting farmers are all paid stooges of Suthep or they are in fact holograms projected on site so as to tarnish the lily white virginal image both the members of the P.T.P. and its policies.

Suthep is a fascist you know, the farmers are fake, and Suthep throws grenades at his own house

LOL

[Soutpeel]

That's supposed to be an effigy of Yingluck???

The only sure way to know was to see if it burst into tears

[NeilSA1]

And the Buddha still has his frock...? Hasn't been de-frocked yet...? How many weeks now... LMAO... we live in a bloody cartoon!

edit " an ancient Cambodian superstitious rite to curse them." that might not work here...

Like him or dislike him, he is ingenious. He has earned my respect.

[rubl]

Aaprt from burning two (rice) straw men, the BP also mentions that the PDRC and farmers interrupted an ongoing auction of 240,000 tonnes of stockpiled rice on the Agricultural Futures Exchange of Thailand.

Furthermore they had that the government had said it had sold 278,962 tonnes of rice through that AFET since last October. Those sales were said to have brought three billion Baht revenue.

Not sure how all adds up to 3, 5, 6, 8 or more billion Baht needed per month, or the 20 billion 'borrowed' a few days ago.

[Dogmatix]

Khmer black magic mumbo jumbo for white liar Kittirat and Nitwitamwrong. Whose next? Yingluck?

I think that family fears black magic more than the NACC. Better fly over to see the Burmese soothsayer for a better ruling quick.

[slipperylobster]

What is "Paddy"?

In relation to what is mentioned in this post.

Paddy is a rice growing paddock.

Paddy is an Irish person

was he drunk?

[commie Joe]

Give her credit........she doesn't look like the effigy, where is the Louis Vuitton bag?

only monks have them these days

[Bluespunk]

Why didn't they do the same cursing rite on Yingluck's effigy?

You never know.......may be would have worked!

Considering the utter mess her govt has been over the past three years, I think someone did curse her back in 2011. Possibly a close family member, with ties to cambodia, was responsible.

Edited March 12, 2014 by Bluespunk

[commie Joe]

must say that the little old lady that lives afacing me went there yesterday early .She had stopped going to the protest because she said it was getting hard to get the payment for being there & the food had gone rubbish . However she went yesterday after being told that she would be paid double if she told people there that she waas a rice farmer. she was up & gone for 5am.

Shes not back yet so maybe the food has improved hahaha she sneaks loads out for her dogs. I will say that anybody that actually thinks that the rice farmers that are waiting for money are poor are sadly mistaken. These rice farmers are the ones that have vast lands & therefore have the biggest claims to the money. Do you really think that all those small farmers can afford tractors ? Tractors are a wet dream for most farmers. Them pics of all them tractors on the way to BKK all sent by the small farmers ?

Yes there was alot of poor people driving them but they was getting wages & the owners of the tractors was getting rental money from the Fruitcake. Yesterday was another one of what he thinks is a smart move but really is idiotic.

Now we must wait for the BIGGEST ALL TIME DEMO EVER IN THE WORLD AGAIN hahahahaha hes like a circus announcer WORLD BIGGEST its so USA hahahaha

[Siripon]

Commie Joe has just been born, you wouldn't be related to the late pipkins by any chance?

Don't worry Joe, there are plenty of real farmers in Ubon for example who haven't been paid yet. Maybe a million nationwide. Don't forget Issan farmers have 2 jobs, farming rice in the rainy season and then construction work or whatever they can find in the post harvest time,