{"id":76848,"date":"2026-03-27T15:43:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T06:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/27\/thailand-petrol-price-rising-farmers"},"modified":"2026-03-27T15:43:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T06:43:58","slug":"in-thailands-rice-paddies-rising-petrol-prices-spell-disaster-for-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76848","title":{"rendered":"In Thailand\u2019s rice paddies, rising petrol prices spell disaster for farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Farmers need fuel to keep water pumps running, but many petrol stations are empty and fears are now growing over the war\u2019s impact on cost of fertiliser<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/mar\/27\/iran-war-live-updates-trump-negotiations-bombing-hormuz-energy-oil-prices-middle-east\">Follow our live coverage of the events in the Middle East here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanadet Traiyot waited in line for hours at his local gas station, armed with containers and desperately hoping to secure much-needed diesel for his rice fields in Ayutthaya, central Thailand. He was third in the queue when the shop announced their supplies had run dry. That was five days ago; he still hasn\u2019t managed to restock to his normal levels.<\/p>\n<p>Back on his farm, Thanadet wades into his rice paddies, weaving past tall green stalks to assess the water levels and decide which of his water pumps can be turned off. Water needs to be spread equally across the fields, he says, but he doesn\u2019t have enough diesel to keep everything running.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/27\/thailand-petrol-price-rising-farmers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farmers need fuel to keep water pumps running, but many petrol stations are empty and fears are now growing over the war\u2019s impact on cost of fertiliserFollow our live coverage of the events in the Middle East hereThanadet Traiyot waited in line for hou&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5234,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,3511,93,3510,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-strait-of-hormuz","category-thailand","category-us-israel-war-on-iran","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76848"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76852,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76848\/revisions\/76852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}