We dare not protest because we fear the law," he said at his farm in Ayutthaya on Saturday. "If there's anything we can still ask, it's that if the government can't give us any compensation, at the very least it should suspend our debts for three years with no interest and find us new borrowing sources so those of us with some assets can borrow more."
The Agriculture Ministry said last week that reservoirs currently held only enough water to irrigate the 3.4 million rai of paddy fields already planted in the main rice bowl of the Chao Phraya River basin.