{"id":12319,"date":"2022-06-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phakhaolao.la\/news\/what-more-can-the-government-do-to-help-farmers\/"},"modified":"2022-06-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T00:00:00","slug":"what-more-can-the-government-do-to-help-farmers","status":"publish","type":"news-post","link":"https:\/\/phakhaolao.la\/en\/news\/what-more-can-the-government-do-to-help-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"What more can the government do to help farmers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Farmers are concerned that if this situation continues, next year&#8217;s harvest will be insufficient. <em>Vientiane Time<\/em> asked for people&#8217;s thoughts on what the government could do to ease farmer&#8217;s woes<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr. Noy Sinthana a resident of Luangprabang province:<\/strong>\u00a0 <em>&#8220;I know the fuel shortage is a big problem for the government but they must have seen it coming when foreign currency reserves dwindled. Of course, it&#8217;s not an easy problem to solve in the short term. Nevertheless, the authorities should support farmers, because food security is important. I am afraid that the fuel shortage could result in a lack of rice and other crops for people to eat and farmers to sell. I urge everyone to be frugal in their use of fuel and not to travel unnecessarily, so that enough reserves of petrol are available for farmer&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Vientiane Times Newspaper\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","format":"standard","news-type":[131],"class_list":["post-12319","news-post","type-news-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","news-type-news"],"acf":{"pkl_story_headline":"The fuel shortage and the high price of fertilizer are creating serious problem for Lao farmers, who have called on the government to take urgent action to resolve the crisis.","pkl_story_authors":"","pkl_story_image":8917,"pkl_story_video":"","pkl_story_image_credits":"","pkl_story_file":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phakhaolao.la\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-post\/12319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phakhaolao.la\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phakhaolao.la\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news-post"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phakhaolao.la\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phakhaolao.la\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=12319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}