date:Jan 07, 2013
esterday: Sooner or later, this plan has got to be scrapped. It's physically impossible to sustain.
The programme benefited just 1.3 million out of 3.6 million of the rice farming households in the harvest year that ended last September.
According to the World Bank report, the scheme cost the government 376 billion baht, or around 3.4 per cent of the country's gross domestic product, in the same period.
In the coming harvest season, assuming none of the rice is sold, the cost of the programme