The Agriculture Ministry plans to request 8 billion baht from emergency loan decree funds to buy 500 electric harvester/tractor units at about 16 million baht each, to cut rice harvesting costs. Critics say the EV price looks inflated versus the roughly 1.6 million baht market price for EVs; the minister argues lifetime fuel savings of over 10 billion baht over 14 years justify it. The proposal goes to the Finance Ministry's review committee in about 2 weeks. For a Thai SME this is mainly a signal: if you sell to or depend on rice farmers, the government may subsidise EV farm machinery, and the minister claims EV-harvested rice could fetch better prices in export markets with environmental rules. No action needed yet.