Longan is on the market in northern Thailand, with production expected to reach nearly 1 million tons

The second northern economic fruit data survey jointly conducted by the Northern Data and Logistics System Development Group of the Office of Agricultural Economics of Thailand showed that the longan planting area in the eight northern provinces was 1,254,937 rai (1 rai = 2.4 acres), a decrease of 14,407 rai (down 1.13%) from last year. The main reason is that farmers cut down aging and low-yielding longan trees and planted other crops such as rubber, durian, mango, and feed corn. The overall output reached 978,974 tons, an increase of 29,501 tons (up 3%) from last year. The longan production season lasts from the end of June to September, with the highest output in August, about 366,273 tons, accounting for 37% of the total output. Among them, the 2024 rainy season longan The output was 637,501 tons, an increase of 30,601 tons (5%) from last year. This is because the good price of longan last year encouraged farmers to carefully manage the orchards and use potassium chlorate to ...