BAAC says payments under rice growers' assistance scheme halfway complete

BANGKOK, 6 December 2014 (NNT) – The Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) has indicated that the assistance money scheme for rice growers is about halfway complete, with 2.25 million rice growers having already been paid.

Supat Eauchai, executive vice president of the BAAC, revealed that the bank is currently making payments to about 100,000 rice growers per day, and is disbursing about 1.2 billion baht per day under the scheme. Up until Thursday, 23.8 billion baht has been paid to 2.25 million eligible rice growers. He said the payment is about halfway done and almost all farmers will likely be paid by December 20, although this would not be the case for the South because the planting season arrives later than in other regions.

A total of 3.49 million rice growers are to be paid under the assistance scheme that provides eligible farmers with 1,000 baht of cash per rai of paddy they work on, up to a maximum of 15,000 baht per receiver.

-- NNT 2014-12-06

They could have used that money to pay some of the farmers for last years harvest,we've been waiting since last December,money is ''promised' in April 2015, disgraceful.

They could have used that money to pay some of the farmers for last years harvest,we've been waiting since last December,money is ''promised' in April 2015, disgraceful.

I will accept that what you say is correct. Very muddied thinking/action by the BAAC then? Perhaps you are not high on the list of "friends"? I hope you are not being discriminated against.

They could have used that money to pay some of the farmers for last years harvest,we've been waiting since last December,money is ''promised' in April 2015, disgraceful.

I will accept that what you say is correct. Very muddied thinking/action by the BAAC then? Perhaps you are not high on the list of "friends"? I hope you are not being discriminated against.

I don't think it's discrimination, the whole village is still waiting for money, at the beginning we could have been paid, the government bank was willing to lend us our own money at 7% interest. The whole village held a protest in front of the bank and the army was called in to break it up, happiness in Isaan.

My FIL too has not been paid. In fact when he applied they called him 2 weeks later and said they lost all his documents and asked him to resubmit it.