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Corn subsidies perpetuate old problems

This photo shows denuded mountains behind a cornfield stretching back into the horizon in Nan province. Bangkok Post photo

The government's decision to pay rice farmers to shift to corn farming raises more questions than it answers.

True, rice farmers need to rethink their old ways. Amid the global oversupply of rice grain, depressed prices, high investment costs, unpredictable weather and nature's wrath from climate change, rice farming has become a losing business.

But if not rice, then what?

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