Thai government to create more production, income as public gift

BANGKOK, September 17 (TNA) - The Thai government is launching more projects to create more production and income as public gifts, following its progress in implementing national reforms in key areas. Minister Attached to the Prime Minister's Office Kobsak Pootrakool told journalists of the new moves on September 16, stating that the Thai government is accelerating implementing such the new projects as promoting the "Smart Farmers" Program through innovations and the "New Theory" in the domestic agricultural sector, covering the aggregate agricultural and the organic agricultural systems, as advised by late King Bhumibol Adulyadej. Kobsak said the new projects also include those on establishing horse crab banks along the coasts of the Gulf of Thailand and the Andaman Sea, as well as valuable wood communities, or tree banks, and public solar cell zones. Besides, the Thai government is trying to help cut people's costs in other areas by, for instance, launching the projects on family doctors to take care of persistent patients of families and on distributing electronic lessons to children to ease their parents' expenses, as well as on opening electronic libraries (e-libraries) and standard schools in local communities and on the free tuition.com program, under which students can access to smart tutors equally. According to the minister, the new moves are aimed to improve the quality of life of a large number of Thai people through the reduction of poverty and economic and social disparity in the long run. The minister reported that the Thai government has implemented measures with gradual progress so far in the reduction of poverty and disparity, as well as corruption and bureaucratic reform, covering the amendment of laws to support community enterprises and to protect or restore forests and the local ecological system. (TNA)