03-10-2012 08:51 AM | Thailand

Rice farmers rally against Nida group

Rice farmers are threatening to step up protests against academics who they have blasted for opposing the government's rice pledging scheme.

The warning was issued by leaders of about 3,000 rice farmers who gathered at the National Institute of Development Administration (Nida) yesterday to protest against a call by a group of its lecturers for the Constitution Court to scrap the programme.
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