Agriculture Min convenes urgent meeting to discuss drought crisis in 22 provinces

[Lite Beer]

Agriculture Min convenes urgent meeting to discuss drought crisis in 22 provinces

BANGKOK, 21 June 2015 (NNT) - Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister and the board of directors convened an urgent meeting today to discuss solutions to the ongoing drought in 22 provinces along the Chao Phraya River.

According to the Minister, Petipong Pungbun Na Ayudhya, related agencies hope to formulate plans to enable farmers who have yet to begin their cultivation and those who have started to grow rice to survive until the crisis ends. Areas within the irrigation zones are estimated at 7.34 million rai. Those where farming has begun are estimated at 3.44 million.

Officials have been instructed to survey the number of both groups of farmers. At the same time, the ministry has planned to request the Bank of Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives to consider suspending debt collection for affected farmers, said Permanent Secretary Chavalit Chookajorn.

Officials have also been instructed to inform the farmers who have already begun growing rice, despite being urged not to do so, that the government would more than likely not provide them with any compensation, given that the Ministry of Interior has yet to declare the 22 provinces disaster zones.

-- NNT 2015-06-21

[clockman]

Typical Thailand, no planning or forthought. Cut down the forests. Grab the money.!

[FangFerang]

There will be a discussion to consider the idea that a committee should be formed to think about having a notion become a full blown concept, if the junta approves, of course.

[Pimay1]

related agencies hope to formulate plans

Action plans and timelines:

1. Express the solution as a series of goals......Three weeks.

2. Generate a list of actions for each goal......Three weeks

3. Prepare a timeline......Two weeks.

4. Allocate resources. If insufficient resources, return to step one.....One month

5. Identify possible problems......Five minutes

6. Develop strategies for monitoring progress......One month

7. Assign tasks.....Three weeks.

8. Estimate costs which includes 500% benefit to each committee ......Fifteen minutes.

9. Distribute all funds and implement the plan.....

[shirtless]

having meetings only contributes to climate change, they wont act as usual maybe they should go to the wat thats about all these idiots know.

[billd766]

Typical Thailand, no planning or forthought. Cut down the forests. Grab the money.!

That is the sum of your statement?

Because the forests have been cut down there is no water>

No mention of El Nino or any other weather conditions throughout the world?

I live on the edge of the Mae Wong national park with close to 1,000 square Km full of trees and yet we still have had no water from the government water pipes since the middle of January. Why should this be when we have a lot of trees but still n water?

[billd766]

having meetings only contributes to climate change, they wont act as usual maybe they should go to the wat thats about all these idiots know.

Strangely enough not even this PM can change the climate and make it rain.

Why don't you learn the indian rain dance and try that. You don't seem to offer anything constructive to the thread.

[Thai at Heart]

There will be a discussion to consider the idea that a committee should be formed to think about having a notion become a full blown concept, if the junta approves, of course.

Someone will "mull" and idea and then someone will be "urged" and eventually nothing will happen.

[Srikcir]

having meetings only contributes to climate change, they wont act as usual maybe they should go to the wat thats about all these idiots know.

Strangely enough not even this PM can change the climate and make it rain.

Why don't you learn the indian rain dance and try that. You don't seem to offer anything constructive to the thread.

Please be careful that you are not slandering the Department of Royal Artifical Rain-making presided over by the Ministry of Agriculture. Since May 2015 it has been attempting improve the drought problem. As you can see the Junta is doing everything in its supernatural power to change the weather.

[Lunchbob]

There are many things that can be done to improve the water problems, sarcasm isn't one of them.

Thai agricultural people know many of the solutions and can do them as there is not 1 or 2 correct ways, but many variations of a basic concept, save, sink and store water, etc...

I am afraid this is a major emergency just as in California, India and elsewhere.