Prime minister Prayut(filepic), however, has turned down a request by rubber farmers for an order under Article 44 of the post-coup interim charter to make it mandatory for state agencies to buy rubber for their use, according to the spokesman.
BANGKOK: Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has instructed government agencies to expedite their purchase of natural rubber in the local market as part of a bid to boost domestic demand and help prop up falling prices, a government spokesman said.
Lt-General Sansern Kaewkamnerd, the spokesman attached to the Prime Ministers Office, said that the nine state agencies involved would spend 16.9 billion bhat to buy more than 22,000 tonnes of rubber latex and almost 3,000 tonnes of rubber sheets for their use.
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