Thailand: Corn farmers career at risk of extinction in the next 2 years
Maize (Corn)
Published Feb 15, 2021
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Four hundred thousand households are taken aback, "corn farmer" in the next 2 years is endangered. "China" overturns the export of cakes, the world market beats "cassava" to reduce Thai imports.
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The challenge of Thai maize farmers is counting down two years from now, it is worth noting that the end of their career as a soybean farmer or not, because today the farmers' corn has faced many storms. Since many substitutes imported products have hit the market, such as corn, wheat, barley, data from the 2020-2024 maize strategy subcommittee chaired by the Department of Agriculture. Revealed the world production of maize in the past five years (2016/17 - 2020/64) is likely to increase from 1,127.66 million tonnes in 2016/17 to 1,163.21 million tonnes in 2020/64 or increase. 0.94 percent per year (as of July 2020), with the top five producing countries being the United States (32.95 percent), China (23.20 percent), Brazil (8.73 percent), the EU (5.77 percent), and Argentina. The top five exporting countries were the United States (32.77 percent), Brazil (18.98 percent), Argentina (18.42 percent), Ukraine (16.32 percent) and Russia (2.72 percent). The top five importers are the ...
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