On May 28, 2016, the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (MAFRA) announced that Korea's self-sufficiency for beef and pork decreased together for the second consecutive year in 2015. Korea's self-sufficiency rate for beef came at 46%in 2015, down from 50.1%posted in 2013. The...
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2016.05.30
1,755
The recent drought induced a lower supply of rice for 2016 and has also driven high demand. In the upcoming third rice auction for this year, 51 rice traders had shown their interests, according to the director-general of the Foreign Trade Department of Thailand. The government will open further...
2016.05.30
1,725
According to the permanent secretary of the Commerce Ministry of Thailand, the country has been setting up a plan to allocate a budget for building a “Rice Institute” to develop value-added products from Thai Rice. As a result of promoting the development of value-added products from...
2016.05.30
1,658
The permanent secretary of the Commerce Ministry of Thailand has said declared a reduction in the area of rice production to promote other non-rice crops and to stablize the price of rice and secure the income of farmers.
Based on the data obtained from the Geo-Informatics and Space Technology...
2016.05.30
1,655
According to the Thai Rice Exporters Association, Thailand is the world’s top rice exporter in the first quarter of 2016 with 44 billion baht in value of exports. This is 23 % higher than the same period of 2015. It has been followed by India, Vietnam, Pakistan and the US.
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2016.05.10
1,746
No
HS code
Description
Unit
Quantity
Note
1
0407.21.00 and 0407.90.10
Chicken eggs
dozen
48,620
Unfertilised eggs
0407.21.00 and 0407.90.10...
2016.04.22
1,782
The year (2016), Thailand agriculture sector has faced the largest impact from severe drought in terms of sharp decline in quantities of agricultural products. The shortages of these agricultural products led to increase in the prices of certain crops.
https://www.scbeic.com/en/detail/product/...
2016.04.22
1,671
According to the Bank of Thailand, the farm employments registered lower income figure while non-farm employments in terms of tourism and manufacturing has accelerated the economy of the Southern Part of Thailand.
http://agriculture.einnews.com/article/320980813/C4jzbqb903Tbr3tx
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