Govt organizes 5th International Tapioca Conference to promote Thai cassava

 

 

BANGKOK, 28th June 2018 (NNT) - The government has organized the International Tapioca Conference for a fifth consecutive year. The event is a place where public and private stakeholders from around the world can exchange views and hear about trends in production and processing, as well as discuss the latest technologies and innovations in Thailand’s cassava industry. 

This year featured a meeting between Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Thailand to establish guidelines for the exchange of information on production, and to collaborate on marketing to stabilize cassava prices and increase farmers’ income. The conference also hosted business-matching activities, resulting in purchase deals between Thai businesses and foreign importers such as China, Turkey, Japan, India and Indonesia. In total, the agreements struck at the conference represented over 1.49 million metric tons of cassava sales worth over 14 billion baht. 

 

Commerce Minister Sonthirat Sonthijirawong urged cassava growers to trust in the government’s measures to develop the production sector and find new sales opportunities. The government used the conference to promote confidence in Thai cassava and Thailand as the world’s top producer and exporter. It also sought opportunities in new markets such as New Zealand and Turkey, which is expected to push the average prices to 3.15 baht per kilogram, the highest in 10 years. 

Cassava exports in the first four months of the year topped 360,000 metric tons. While volume actually decreased by almost 8%, the trade value increased by 26.26% compared to the same period last year to 1.18 billion US dollars.

 

-- nnt 2018-06-29

Here's a great sales opportunity for cassava. Plastic bags that aren't. Then it won't only be July 3 that some supermarkets aren't issuing plastic bags:

 

 

 

16 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

Here's a great sales opportunity for cassava. Plastic bags that aren't. Then it won't only be July 3 that some supermarkets aren't issuing plastic bags:

 

 

 

That would get my vote. and the way the Thais are with there true attitude to plastic bag use, it would work with them too. 

 

Edited June 29, 20188 yr by stanleycoin