Farmers turn to self-help before assistance reach

 

As assistance from both the public and private sectors is pouring into farmers suffering hardship from low paddy prices, farmers in several provinces now have to help themselves with all possible means to keep their crops in good shape after responding to government's call to delay selling their crops pending better prices.

 

Assistance now poured in to help poor farmers include soft loans to delay selling rice crops by the Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives, direct purchase of rice from farmers’ cooperatives, direct selling of rice by farmers on the internet, arrangement of spaces at all PTT gas stations in the country for farmers to bring their rice for sale to customers, opening of selling points at Government,  state enterprise and company offices, to sell rice with no charge.

 

Soldiers and police were advised to help farmers harvesting to reduce labour cost.

 

But before these assistance will arrive, one way farmers are using is to help each other to lower labour cost in harvesting.

 

In the northern province of Chiang Rai, farmers in local communities worked together in unity to harvest rice yields in Thoen and Khun Taan districts.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/farmers-turn-to-self-help-before-assistance-reach/

 

 

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2016-11-05

 

They always help each other up here (Chiang Rai ).

You help your friends plant and harvest, they help you. You only hire in labour as a last resort.

I rather assumed it was the same elsewhere?

Great to see the motivation for everyone including soldiers and police to help pitch-in with harvesting in response to "... government's call to delay selling their crops pending better prices". It will be of even more benefit if and when this help ever arrives. 

And what if the prices don't get better? Wasn't this was part of the reason for the failure of the Yingluck experiment.

 

 

 

economics 101 about demand & supply still not alive in thailand