{"id":34873,"date":"2019-03-09T14:23:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T14:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34873"},"modified":"2019-03-09T14:23:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T14:23:15","slug":"thailand-offers-rubber-farmers-subsidy-amid-falling-latex-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34873","title":{"rendered":"Thailand offers rubber farmers subsidy amid falling latex prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"64.5210084034\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/thailand.html\">Thailand<\/a> is the world&#8217;s largest exporter of raw rubber. However, as its global price is plummeting, the country&#8217;s farmers are suffering.<\/p>\n<p>The government has launched a subsidy programme. But critics say it&#8217;s too little too late, and just an attempt to win votes ahead of elections.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Scott Heidler reports from Krabi province in southern Thailand.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand is the world&#8217;s largest exporter of raw rubber. However, as its global price is plummeting, the country&#8217;s farmers are suffering. The government has launched a subsidy programme. But critics say it&#8217;s too little too late, and just an attempt to win votes ahead of elections. Al Jazeera&#8217;s Scott Heidler reports from Krabi province in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}