The cabinet approved a budget of 2.5 billion baht from the Central Fund today, to help farmers affected by this year’s flooding.
About 1.5 billion baht will be used to fund five projects aimed at improving the productivity of rice farmers until next September. The rest will be used to buy pesticides and rice seeds for farmers, so they can start cultivation as soon as the floodwater has receded.
Jirayu Huangsap, spokesman for the prime minister’s office, said that the financial assistance is to enable farmers to resume cultivation quickly, so they can earn some money from early harvests and recover from flood relates losses.
