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Export prices for nearly all grades of rice, except fragrant rice, declined further from the previous week’s level due to continued weakening of Thai baht.

Unlike in 2014, the Thai broiler industry in 2015 has encountered much lower profitability due to a sharp decline in broiler prices.

Recent tight domestic corn supplies have resulted in higher import demand for feed wheat.

Export prices declined slightly due to continued weakening of Thai baht currency and pressure from the competition of Vietnamese rice.

Export prices declined 1 percent mainly due to continued weakening of Thai baht.

Export prices declined 1 percent due to continued weakening of Thai baht and lack of inquiries. Traders are awaiting the result of public tender for around 0.7 million metric tons issued on August 10.

Export prices for most grades of rice are basically unchanged from the previous week except for fragrant rice.

Thai rice exports are revised down to 9.0 million metric tons in anticipation of tighter exportable supplies of new-crop white rice & limited availability of good old-crop rice in the government stock

Export prices declined 1 to 3 percent due to the weakening of Thai baht.

Export prices increased around 1 percent as upward pressure on domestic prices more than offset the weakening Thai baht.

Despite a sale of 1.1 million metric ton of rice stocks, export prices increased 2-3 percent due to concerns about ongoing drought and small amounts of good quality rice remaining in government stocks

Thailand’s 10-year Alternative Energy Development Plan (2012 – 2021) remains unchanged targeting the use of ethanol at 9 million liters/day and B100 at 7.2 million liters/day in 2021, respectively.