Thailand: Grain and Feed Update

  |   Attaché Report (GAIN)   |   TH2022-0005

MY2021/22 off-season rice planting was well above last year due to sufficient water supplies. Post forecasts that Thai rice exports will reach 8 million metric tons in 2022, up 31 percent from 6.1 million metric tons in 2021. Posts forecasts that MY2021/22 corn imports will decline 17 percent from MY2020/21 due to a shrinking demand for swine feed caused by the African Swine Fever outbreak. Post revised down MY2021/22 wheat imports to 2.9 million metric tons due to a prolonged COVID-19 outbreak and a slow economic recovery.

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