Thai sugar cane output in the next 2022-23 crop year is expected to increase to 106 million tonnes, leading to higher sugar exports, though the impact of Russia-Ukraine war continues to worry farmers.
The amount of sugar cane in the 2021-22 crop year stands at 92.1 million tonnes.
Good harvests will result from more rainfall and better sugar cane strains that promise higher crop yields, said Narathip Anantasuk, head of the National Federation of Sugarcane Planters and head of the Office of Sugarcane Planter Association Zone 7.
“Cane output in the 2022-23 crop year will be the highest in four years, since the 2019-20 crop year when the country underwent a…
