Bangkok:Thailand’s junta chief has ordered eight ministries to buy rubber to help struggling farmers, reneging on a vow to end the country’s long history of costly agricultural subsidies.

The kingdom’s rubber farmers largely hail from the kingdom’s southern provinces and were a key part of the anti-government protest movement which cheered a May 2014 coup that brought the military to power.

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