Thailand's inclement weather has reduced the production of mangosteen, rambutan, and longkong next year, except for durian

Office of Agricultural Economics (Agricultural Economics Office), Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives Revealing the forecast results and the situation of the production of fruit trees in the eastern region in 2023 in the provinces of Chanthaburi, Trat and Rayong, including 4 types of durian, mangosteen, rambutan and longkong. From the year 2022, durian has a fruitful area of 351,546 rai, an increase of 4.85%, which is the only product with an increased fruitful area due to price incentives. Causing farmers to continuously expand durian planting areas in the past several years. while other fruit trees The fruiting area decreased, namely mangosteen with fruiting area of 180,333 rai, a decrease of 2.18%, rambutan 98,292 rai, a decrease of 1.95%, and longkong 29,330 rai, a decrease of 7.59%. The yield per fruit area of the 4 fruit trees decreased, with durian yielding 2,152 kg/rai, a decrease of 1.47%, mangosteen 1,041 kg/rai, a decrease of 13.47%, rambutan 2,057 kg/rai, a ...