Salty-fields rice farmers take heart from court victory

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Grandma Noi wins salination court case

Published: 7 Mar 2013 at 16.46
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NAKHON RATCHASIMA - The Appeals Court has ordered a shrimp farmer to pay an 86-year-old woman one million baht plus interest in compensation for the salination of her rice fields.

The ruling is likely to spur similar claims from other rice farmers in the northeastern province whose fields have withered under the effects of nearby salt and shrimp farms.

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faranginkorat
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Discussion 6 : 08 Mar 2013 at 07.286
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A lot of the salt in this area is natural, Pi Mai has one of the largest salt mines in the world. You can frequently see the salt crystalized just above the water line on the edge of rice ponds in the area even if there is no shrimp farming or salt farming going on.

On the one hand, why not raise shrimp if the land is already too salty to raise rice? On the other, people should not aggravate the situation. Tough call.
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Discussion 5 : 08 Mar 2013 at 07.035
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It is a small but vital victory for the small but vital people of Thailand angainst the bigger farmers and middlemen.
With luck it will spread across the country and the little people will keep winning and chiselling away.
Good for you Grandma Noi.
At last you are empowered.
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Discussion 4 : 08 Mar 2013 at 06.014
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Time to regulate shrimp farming before it's too late. Actually it is already too late.
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Discussion 3 : 07 Mar 2013 at 23.193
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So her fields are still full of salt .What is she supposed to do with the few hundred thousand she has left .
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Discussion 2 : 07 Mar 2013 at 20.422
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The cheque is in the post.
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Discussion 1 : 07 Mar 2013 at 19.061
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I will believe it when the lady receives the money.
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