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Thai PM to inspect programmes to counter drought

BANGKOK, January 21 (TNA) - Thai Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-ocha is scheduled to lead his entourage for a one-day inspection of programmes to fight against drought in provincial areas on January 22. Assistant Government Spokesman Colonel Athisit Chainuwat told journalists that the prime minister is scheduled to first visit a learning centre for efficiency enhancement of agricultural production in Bung Platu Sub-district, Banpot Pisai District of Nakhon Sawan Province in the Lower Thai North, where tasks according to the government’s drought countermeasures have been implemented, especially the shift from off-season rice cropping to drought-resistant cropping. The assistant spokesman said the prime minister is also scheduled to chair a meeting with representatives of four lower northern Thai provinces at Chaopraya University in Nakhon Sawan on how to tackle drought and discuss on the livelihood of local low-income earners and the government's small-scale investment projects. The assistant stated that the prime minister will later travel to Chai Nat Province to inspect a water retention pond restoration project in Ban Nong Du, which is a community integrative effort to retent 800,000 cubic metres of water to address flooding and drought in order to benefit some 900 local households. The Thai government has, meanwhile, urged local farmers in drought-prone areas not to grow off-season rice this year but to grow only crops which do not consume much water to help save water and to relieve drought. (TNA)

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