A controversial scheme to guarantee farmers above-market rates for rice has become a lightning rod for anger among Yingluck's critics, who say it has encouraged corruption, drained the public coffers and left the country with a mountain of unsold stock.
About 200 rice farmers, accompanied by trucks and combine harvesters, massed outside the commerce ministry in protest at the lack of payment under the scheme, which knocked the kingdom from its position as the world's top rice exporter in 2012.
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