BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's military government started paying arrears to farmers on Monday after months of delays caused by a political crisis that left a caretaker government powerless to raise funds for payments due under a controversial rice-buying scheme.
The scheme, which paid farmers above market rates for their rice, helped bring the Puea Thai Party of Yingluck Shinawatra to power in 2011, but the programme ran into funding problems, made worse when the nation's long-running political crisis made it impossible for the government to raise funds.
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