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Home » News from Thailand » Thai agriculture minister: 'Farmers should dress better'
According to the Thai minister of agriculture, farmers should dress better. Now they would look shabby in worn clothes. According to him, that is one reason why young people no longer want to be farmers. Minister Chatchai Sarikulya said this at a policy meeting on Monday.
He therefore pleads for an improvement in the image of the farm. Farmers should transform into 'smart farmers'.
Sirinya Wattanasukchai's weekly column on the opinion page of the Bangkok Post makes mincemeat of the minister's statements. Farmers have something else on their mind than a trendy outfit. They don't deliberately dress badly because they want to look poor. The majority of farmers are not only poor, but also disadvantaged. Many farmers can barely make ends meet and work as taxi drivers out of season.
Source: Bangkok Post
Totally agree! Shameful the way those peasants are walking. And then the vagrants and beggars, something should be done about that too. Even if it is only Zeeman quality, here you say: thaleeman.
So, government, do something about their income situation, no rice subsidy because only the large cooperatives benefited from that, but measures such as free or cheaper seedlings and fertilizer, lower costs for irrigation, better information and guidance, and do something about employment so that poor wretches can also have a earn a bite of rice.
Selling sweet talk, for the umpteenth time, just for the stage, really, that doesn't help anyone.
What a silly comment from a minister who undoubtedly has enough batches, and that leads a country, which is probably why the country suffers.
So according to the Thai minister you should look rich if you are poor?
And who is going to pay for those expensive clothes that look shabby in no time after working the land?
Those people look “poor” because they don't earn a penny from farming.
The low income is the problem, not the 'clothes'…
How about the scorching sun above their heads when they work in the farm?
That's why they cover up with lots of sun-covering clothing no matter what it looks like.
No just appreciation for the farmers who often have a hard life and get a little bit for their products and I'm not even talking about their rubber harvesting in the evening how this liquid rubber smells and how they smell anyway and they have to shower immediately upon returning home to get rid of the smell.
Then to think that rubber prices are abnormally low….
Well, he will then give the farmers clothing vouchers!…case solved, or will he expect them to squeeze that out of their meager earnings as well. If only he thinks carefully that if there are no more farmers, no food will be grown to feed the rest of Thailand.
Perhaps all those affected fake brand clothing intended to destroy can be used for that purpose , does it still serve a good purpose , and can he be proud of his farmers in brand clothing . all the men in Hugo Boss and the ladies in Dolce & Gabana ……
Put someone else on that ministerial post who at least is not from another planet!
On the next visit to the agricultural village of my Thai spouse, I put a few worn-out three-piece suits with a jacket, shirts, ties and bow tie in the suitcase. Those suits still look patent. Ironed, the shirts look as good as new. I give them to the poorest rice farmers there.
Next time, standing up to my knees in the mud, they shout to me with a big smile: Pai nai tight, I won't have to shout back in vain: Pai tioo tight. I can then call them over and ask: Aow suit mai?
Are they going to be happy 🙂
And El Generalisimo will also be delighted because a farrang voluntarily contributes spontaneously to the policy objectives of his minister of agriculture.
Can it get any better? It shouldn't get crazier 🙂
Yes Jasmine. It is not without reason that the rubber plantations are largely silent, the price had fallen from 2015TB to 100TB per kilo in 17. We say here that rubber is becoming scarce and expensive, strangely they pay almost nothing for about €0,50 per kilo. Furthermore, I must say my parents-in-law he travels as a farmer in Shakon, my other half was ashamed of this, sorry, I have my own company in the Netherlands, but I respect my parents-in-law, they do have a large farm, but they still work hard for me, everyone does their best there, but the changes they want are moving far too fast, the government there is looking far too much to the west and Bangkok is no longer affordable for a Thai
I think it would be ideal to use surplus army uniforms for that. Those few thousand generals in this country still have something in the closet. Complete with stripes and stars please, so we can also rank the farmers. Then we get the "sip, roy, pun and phon" jacks. The highest farmer in each province is then addressed as “Phon Chaona Tri” or Boer Major General, new untrained farmers as “Sip Chaona Tri” (farmer private) and expelled new farmer as “Roi Chaona Tri” (Boer Sub-Lieutenant) .
If the farmers are really 'smart', they will certainly vote this minister out in the next elections. But that is probably not what this minister means by 'smart'.
To quote Youp van 't Hekte: “And he still has to become demented.”
It really doesn't matter how low you think people who say things like that are. You seem to have to downgrade your opinion over and over again.
In the 60s/70s there was that famous French fashion designer (Coco Chanel?) who said about the revolutionary bariccade youth: “They have good ideas, but I'm worried about the way they dress!”
This Thai is weak in the head.
Such a statement is something for a Carnival session.. Alave!