Bangkok: The Prime Minister stated that the Cabinet approved a central budget of 2,553 million baht to rehabilitate farmers after the floods and ordered the Ministry of Industry, Ministry of Commerce, and Ministry of Agriculture to set guidelines to reduce the burning of sugarcane and corn, reduce PM 2.5 dust, and hasten the establishment of a working group to utilize state land. Ms. Paethongtarn Shinawatra, Prime Minister, revealed after the cabinet meeting that she has ordered the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Interior to jointly set up a working group to study the feasibility and appropriateness, including expediting the process to be able to use the large amount of state land under the state’s responsibility for the benefit of the people, but the ownership still belongs to the state, in order to focus on promoting people to have better quality housing.
According to Thai News Agency, after the meeting of the heads of government agencies at the level of permanent secretary or equivalent yesterday
(4 Nov 67), he ordered cooperation between various ministries and integrated implementation of various policies to be successful, such as the Ministry of Finance to accelerate the disbursement of government investment budgets and for all agencies to cooperate in linking data to be consistent with the government’s Digital Government policy, and assigned the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Interior to study measures to support urban expansion and urban planning adjustments to expand to support the industrial sector, and assigned the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of Commerce to urgently find measures to purchase sugarcane and guidelines for burning sugarcane and corn to reduce PM 2.5 dust.
In addition, the Cabinet has approved the central budget to rehabilitate farmers who were affected by the flood in 2024, as proposed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, with a budget of 2,553 million baht, for 8 projects, including occupational rehabilitation, agricu
ltural land rehabilitation, and agricultural machinery repair, as well as debt reduction for members of agricultural institutions and farmer groups.