11.   Golf courses have increasingly become targets of farmers groups and peasant activists who claim that developers construct them to avoid falling under the land reform program.

12.   On the other hand, farmers and farmer groups are enrolled in intensive courses in basic integrated farming, focusing on sustainable farming methodologies.

13.   Sakda said the government is able but hesitant to give the green light to several of the solutions which have been settled between farmers groups and the Chavalit government.

14.   The Bangkok Post reported Wednesday that several farmers groups were planning to descend upon the capital during the no-confidence debate to demonstrate against the government.

15.   The farmers group, meanwhile, has made more demands at each discussion.

16.   The government, by discussing the bill with the farmers group, hoped to reduce mounting pressure over the accusation it had ignored the plight of the poor.

17.   The mad cow crisis has devastated cattle farmers in France, and one leading farmers group said it was happy with the agency recommendation.

18.   The party also scheduled meetings later Thursday with Self-Defense, a radical farmer group, and the right-wing Law and Justice party.

19.   The PPI expressed alarm that the bill may be passed without the merits of any consultation with farmers groups.

20.   Timothy Henwood, president of the farmers group, said a delegation hoped to meet with President Robert Mugabe this weekend to discuss the land invasions.