The rice farmers started their protest against the government again. The former protest was over when the government agreed to intervene a resonable price of their rice yield. However there were no mechanisms to implement the agreement seriously. The middlemen rejected to buy their rice yields at the price agreed. So the suffered rice farmers had to protest for the justice.
The protest became more serious. More roads are closed. Transportations from the city to other towns and provinces also stopped. Many people are suffered from this event and some blamed the rice farmers.
I did not agree to blamed the rice farmers. Since they are farmers, they have earned from growing rice for generations. The small farmers may not be able to join the farmer associations/ cooperations and it is the government's responsibility to take good care of them. Information and appropriate technologies should be introduced to the farmer throughout the the production system, postharvest management and marketting.
This is only a daydream ! Then the rice farmers protests still exist and needed the solutions urgently.
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