The generous rice subsidy scheme introduced by Yingluck Shinawatra after her landslide election victory in 2011 is hugely popular among her supporters in the rural north and northeast of the country, but is seen as wasteful and corrupt by her opponents in Bangkok. The FT's Michael Peel explains why rice is at the centre of Thailand's political crisis


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