date:Jan 20, 2014
ed that their taxes are paying for the subsidy.
However, hundreds of farmers, some unpaid since October, have also joined the demonstrations against Yingluck, disillusioned by the government's inability to reliably fund the controversial programme.
Farmers who have not been paid by the state for rice bought under the scheme threatened to block roads in 26 provinces last month.
Thailand is sitting on a massive rice stockpile, estimated between 15 and 17 million tonnes.
But in a reprieve for t