Maungdaw, 13 May 03: "The drive to realize the interest on the money lent to rice farmers in the western part of Burma has been launched beginning first week of May, according to our correspondent. The ?interest? as branded by the ruling Burmese junta is actually a kind of fine imposed on the rice farmers who failed to pay up the quota of rice for this season till April 4, after which the farmers who could not pay up the due quantity of rice were allowed a ?grace period? till 29 April to pay up the overdue loans..."