BANGKOK: Floods have killed at least 23 people in Thailand’s north-eastern farming region, the interior ministry said, causing damage estimated at US$300mil (RM1.3bil).
The South-East Asian nation is the world’s second-biggest exporter of rice, some grown in its northeast.
It is in the middle of the annual rainy season and floods, which began on July 5, have been unusually heavy, authorities said.
Ten of Thailand’s 77 provinces are disaster zones, the Interior Ministry said, adding that most of the 700,000ha affected were rice-growing farmland.
“Losses from the floods are estimated at at least 10 billion baht (RM1.3bil),” Jirapan Assawathanakul, chief of the Thai General Insurance Association, told reporters Reuters.
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