Thai Interior Min extends school lunch agriculture project

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MOI extends school lunch agriculture project



BANGKOK, 22 February 2016 (NNT) – The Ministry of Interior is working to extend the Agriculture for School Lunch project, to cover all provinces nationwide, as part of the Sufficiency Economy Philosophy promotion campaign.

The Ministry of Interior’s Permanent-Secretary Grisda Boonrat has revealed that the Ministry has appointed all provinces to extend the operation of the Agriculture for School Lunch project, under Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn’s initiative, as part of the government’s campaign to promote Sufficiency Economy Philosophy.

District chiefs will push forward this campaign in cooperation with local school directors and board, village headsmen, and the related government agencies, to support the school’s plan to extend its Agriculture for School Lunch project, which shall be selected from officials.

Budget to support this campaign can be requested until 31 March 2016 through the committee, with the budget capacity of 100,000 baht per school. The continuous financial support for the next academic years will be instead allocated from the provincial budget.


-- NNT 2016-02-22

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[worgeordie]

budget of 100,000 THB per school,thats a lot of seeds,

with the kids doing all the work,as with most projects here

a lot of the budget will evaporate into thin air.

regards Worgeordie

[eliotness]

Words, words and more words, but to quote a famous advert "where's the meat". I know of a school that has sufficiency economics as one of their main aims, yet I see very little going on that would achieve that, unless of course that really means dumbing down the education standards so that the students accept a subsistence economy.