--- title: Path to Prosperity of Thai Farmers poster, PPB-363 (Thai, Bangkok) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/path-to-prosperity-thai-farmers-ppb-363-thai-bangkok-1964/ description: A Thai-language photo poster on farmer groups in Thailand. A large photograph of a man bundling rice seedlings in a flooded paddy sits beside a headline section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Path to Prosperity of Thai Farmers poster, PPB-363 (Thai, Bangkok) [![Path to Prosperity of Thai Farmers poster, PPB-363, 1964 US poster: A Thai-language photo poster on farmer groups in Thailand](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/path-to-prosperity-thai-farmers-ppb-363-thai-bangkok-1964.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/path-to-prosperity-thai-farmers-ppb-363-thai-bangkok-1964.jpg) # Path to Prosperity of Thai Farmers poster, PPB-363 (Thai, Bangkok) A Thai-language photo poster on farmer groups in Thailand. A large photograph of a man bundling rice seedlings in a flooded paddy sits beside a headline and paragraph, with four smaller photographs of planting, a seed-judging contest and a water pump. The text says the groups, formed with the Rice Department, lead Thai farmers to prosperity. The tell is card-stacking: only gains are shown, with no costs or failures, in ordinary farmers' terms. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) ## Text on the object Original (Thai) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` ทางรุ่งเรืองของ ชาวนาไทย การที่ชาวนาได้รวมกันจัดตั้ง 'กลุ่มชาวนา' ขึ้นด้วยความร่วมมือของกรมการข้าว เพื่อปรับปรุงอาชีพการทำนาให้ก้าวหน้าด้วยวิธีต่างๆเช่นสมาชิกรวมหุ้นซื้อรถแทรกเตอร์ไถนา เข้าอบรมวิชาความรู้แขนงต่าง ๆ ได้รับการส่งเสริมให้ทำไร่นาผสม เลี้ยงสัตว์ เพื่อเพิ่มพูนรายได้นั้น คือ ทางนำชาวนาไทยไปสู่ความรุ่งเรือง [small photo captions in Thai, not transcribed in full] 5-022 (12) ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` The Path to Prosperity of Thai Farmers The farmers' joint founding of 'farmers' groups', with the cooperation of the Rice Department, to improve the farming occupation in various ways, such as members pooling shares to buy plough tractors, attending training in various fields, and being encouraged to run mixed farms and raise animals to raise income, is the way that leads Thai farmers to prosperity. [small photo captions not translated] ``` Five small photo captions are in a small Thai type and are summarised, not transcribed. [← Lincoln Center Lecture poster, PPB-364 (Chinese-English, Taipei)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lincoln-center-lecture-poster-ppb-364-chinese-taipei-1964/) [Al Hayat fi Amrika No. 30 promotion poster (Arabic poster distributed in Beirut) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/al-hayat-fi-amrika-no-30-arabic-1964/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account. - [Persepolis, Apadana staircase relief: a figure with an animal from a procession of delegations, early fifth century BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/persepolis-apadana-delegate-relief-500bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Manufactured consensus) - [Alabaster relief, Assyrian troops storming a citadel, from Nineveh (reign of Sennacherib)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/relief-sennacherib-storming-citadel-nineveh-704bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Card stacking). Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page. - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). Content note: A Roman victory coin showing a mourning female figure as the personification of the conquered province of Judaea after the Roman suppression of the Jewish revolt; shown as struck, with the historical context on the regime page.