BANGKOK: The president of the cassava farmers group, Vashira Tanadaka and 60 farmers from Nakhon Ratchasima presented wreaths to Mananya Thaiset, the deputy minister who plans to ban paraquat, glyphosate and chlorpyrifos at the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives yesterday, telling her that the banning of paraquat is illogical although they agree with the bans on the other two chemicals.
Vashira asked the deputy minister to stop claiming that the chemical is dangerous to people and citing incorrect information from NGOs.
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