The Government yesterday started handing out the assistance fund for rubber planters who are each entitled to receive 1,000 baht/rai, with no more than 15,000 baht per household.
Twenty-five representatives of rubber planters joined in the aid-presenting ceremony in Surat Thani province chaired by Director-General of the Agricultural Extension Department Oran Pitak.
In Nakhon Si Thammarat, the program was better received with 283 planters receiving their compensations totaling 1.4 million baht. The payment covered 1,406 rai of rubber plantations. There are at least 6,380 rubber planters in the province who are eligible for the scheme.
Meanwhile in Chanthaburi, the provincial Governor and a Deputy Director General of the Agricultural Extension Department witnessed the handing out of the compensation fund to 454 planters on the first day of the scheme. A total of 4.31 million baht was presented to registered para rubber planters.