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Price of corn to be guaranteed

By The Nation
Published on October 24, 2008

The Cabinet will consider guaranteeing the price of corn at no less than Bt8.2 per kilogram at its meeting on Tuesday.

"Our plan is to buy corn from farmers at between Bt8.2 and Bt8.5 per kilogram," Chiang Mai MP Boonsong Teriyapirom said yesterday.

Boonsong is also Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat's personal secretary.

"Deputy Prime Minister Olarn Chaipravat has already agreed to the plan," the MP said.

On Wednesday, many northern MPs called on Olarn to resign for failing to help corn farmers. Olarn talked to them later in the day.

"There's no problem. We can talk," Boonsong said.

Boonsong said Olarn did not address the corn price at the Cabinet meeting this week because he wanted to check on cornfarming costs first.

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