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Cabinet okays B8bn package for sugarcane farmers

A worker harvests sugar cane in Surin province.

The mobile cabinet on Monday greenlighted incentives worth 8 billion baht for sugarcane farmers who agree to cut fresh sugarcane without burning the residue, a move aimed at helping reduce the amount of PM2.5 dust in the 2022/23 harvest year.

According to Rudklao Suwankiri, the government’s deputy spokesperson, funding to support the scheme will be sourced from the state-owned Bank for Agricultural and Agricultural…

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