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Thai rice production set to fall

Farmers harvest rice in the fields. Rice exports during the first seven months this year tallied 2.54 million tonnes with a value of 40.8 billion baht, a gain of 51.8% year-on-year.

Thai rice production is expected to drop by 871,000 tonnes of rice paddy, down 3.27% to 25.8 million tonnes, for the 2023-24 harvest season, mainly attributed to the El Niño weather phenomenon, according to the latest forecast by the Agricultural Economics Office under the Agriculture and Cooperatives Ministry.

Tantita Bunyamaneekul, deputy secretary-general of the Agricultural Economics Department, said the country’s rice cultivation area…

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