CityNews – On 24th December at 1 p.m. representatives of the Mae Jaem Corn Farmers Network gathered at Chiang Mai Town Hall to request that the government extend their corn selling quota and extend their selling period. Adisorn Kamnerdsiri, the Vice Governor of Chiang Mai, received their request letter and promptly responded.
Uthai Buntiam, the Network’s representative, said that this request was not at all related to politics. He said the group had to gather at Town Hall because they still had not received money promised to them in October 2013. Also, around 30 – 40% of their crops are still available to harvest. The government gave them only 28,000 tons of corn as their quota, but the actual total produce from Mae Jaem this year is around 140,000 tons. The corn farmers insisted that they would stay at Town Hall until the government heard them.
Vice Governor Adisorn said that Chiang Mai government had already talked to related departments about this issue. He said they have already approved 10 million baht for the first round of buying and they would add 48,000 tons of corn to the quota. He also told the farmers to be patient and that the government was doing their best.
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