rooster59 Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 Thailand becomes world’s No 1 exporter of sweet corns supawadee wangsri BANGKOK – The Department of Foreign Trade disclosed that Thailand has become the world’s number one exporter of sweet corns and related products for 10 consecutive years. The Director-General of the Department of Foreign Trade, Adul Chotinisakorn, said exports of sweet corns and related products during the first 11 months of 2018 amounted to 236,775 tons, an increase of 6.7 percent, worth 7.32 billion baht, up by 2.2 percent, with the highest number of exports to Japan, followed by South Korea and Taiwan. As a result, Thailand has become the world’s number one exporter of sweet corns and related products for 10 consecutive years because the country has the potential to produce quality sweet corns with a good taste as well as to develop the corn strains. The climate of Thailand is also suitable for growing sweet corns while major rival countries like France, Hungary and the United States can grow sweet corns only once a year. Although the weather conditions in Vietnam and China are similar to Thailand, their production quality is not up to the standards of the world market. -- nnt 2019-01-26 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neeray Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 Either I don't understand something here or this report was prepared by TAT. A quick search says otherwise. World Leaders In Corn (Maize) Production, By Country USA (377.5 million metric tons) China (224.9 million metric tons) ... Brazil (83.0 million metric tons) ... India (42.3 million metric tons) ... Argentina (40.0 million metric tons) ... Ukraine (39.2 million metric tons) ... Mexico (32.6 million metric tons) ... Indonesia (19.0 million metric tons) ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crossy Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 4 minutes ago, neeray said: Either I don't understand something here or this report was prepared by TAT. Sweet corn is a type of maize, not all maize is sweet corn (pop corn is also a type of maize). The vast majority of maize production actually goes for animal feed. I had to look twice too, one doesn't exactly see huge fields of the stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinneil Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 Well Adul i think you are talking nonsense, Thailand no 1 exporter of sweet corns, ha, ha. I think you have been reading to much of T.A.T.s bs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laza 45 Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 10 minutes ago, neeray said: Either I don't understand something here or this report was prepared by TAT. A quick search says otherwise. World Leaders In Corn (Maize) Production, By Country USA (377.5 million metric tons) China (224.9 million metric tons) ... Brazil (83.0 million metric tons) ... India (42.3 million metric tons) ... Argentina (40.0 million metric tons) ... Ukraine (39.2 million metric tons) ... Mexico (32.6 million metric tons) ... Indonesia (19.0 million metric tons) ... Just guessing.. but possibly Thailand is producing for human consumption.. the top producers a producing for animal feed.. maybe.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redline Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 Unfortunately, I have yet to have any really sweet corn here. The corn here is a harder, and not as sweet as I’m used to Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neeray Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 Okay, Crossy alerted me to "sweet" corn as opposed to corn in general. So I narrowed the search down to "sweet" and came up with this. It's still lacking in the fine details but brings Thailand favourably into the picture. "The global export market for canned sweet corn is increasing annually, from 670,000 tonnes exported in 2010 to 760,000 tonnes last year. Thailand, Hungary, France and the US are the world’s largest exporters of canned sweet corn." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quandow Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 Thailand is also the no 1 producer of Thai people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatOngo Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 2 minutes ago, quandow said: Thailand is also the no 1 producer of Thai people. That's a bit corny! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonthai3 Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 3 hours ago, neeray said: Either I don't understand something here or this report was prepared by TAT. A quick search says otherwise. World Leaders In Corn (Maize) Production, By Country USA (377.5 million metric tons) China (224.9 million metric tons) ... Brazil (83.0 million metric tons) ... India (42.3 million metric tons) ... Argentina (40.0 million metric tons) ... Ukraine (39.2 million metric tons) ... Mexico (32.6 million metric tons) ... Indonesia (19.0 million metric tons) ... I guess the difference is between production and export. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Srikcir Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 3 hours ago, rooster59 said: Thailand has become the world’s number one exporter of sweet corns and related products for 10 consecutive years Not in 2016: https://www.tridge.com/intelligences/sweet-corn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyFriend You Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 12 hours ago, quandow said: Thailand is also the no 1 producer of Thai people. Its against International Law to export stupidity, which it seems to be in abundance here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BTB1977 Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 This article is about sweet corn. Not field corn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khunPer Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 On 1/26/2019 at 4:37 AM, Srikcir said: Not in 2016: https://www.tridge.com/intelligences/sweet-corn The article is from Januar 2019, and it states "236,775 tons [...] worth 7.32 billion baht", which is in the area of $230M...???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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