24 CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEARIn mid-December, a fortnight after the flooding had begun, the waters were still rising near Baan Suay. Long’s field, was now at least six feet under water and it was estimated that over a million Baht in crops had been lost by that one village’s farmers alone, despite the best efforts of the Sanuk Employment Agency, which had grown in strength to thirty men and women, most, but now not all of whom came from Mae Sot.
The Team and the ten punts that the firm controlled were in permanent employment. The agency was now the prime earner, since the farmers saw little point in tending crops that might rot later underwater. However, the agency had sparked other farmers to try to emulate their salvage operation and some were quite successful at it.
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