Thailand's longan production has decreased, and exports to China have decreased by nearly 20%

Based on news from Thai media, the Ministry of Agriculture of Thailand stated that the monitoring of longan production in eight northern provinces found that the planting area of longan in these areas in 2023 will be 1.273 million rai, a slight decrease of 1.43% compared with last year's 1.288 million rai. The main reason is that farmers cut down old longan trees to plant other crops such as durian, rambutan, rubber, cassava, corn and coffee. The total output of longan in the monitoring area was 972,300 tons (including 641,000 tons of seasonal longan and 334,000 tons of non-seasonal longan), a decrease of 5.04% from last year's 1.023 million tons. Reduced production. Since the end of June, seasonal longan has gradually flooded into the market and will continue until September 2023. The peak production period is concentrated in August. Comparing the data of last year, it can be found that the output of seasonal longan has decreased by 13.16% compared with last year's 731,000 tons. ...