Corn production and harvesting practices in Thailand

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Dear all,

 

I want to know your experience related to corn harvesting practices in Thailand

 

What are the commonly used corn harvesting practices in Thailand?

-  Manual or using harvesters

- Do farmers harvest on their own or they give contract to the harvesting contractors?

 

Overall what is the mechanization level in corn harvesting? 

- Is it different region-wise? As, I understand in upland farming it is not common to use mechanization in harvesting 

 

What are the common uses of the corn crop in Thailand? e.g. Exports 70%, Domestic consumption 30% (Food processing 10%, , Animal feed 10%, seed for next crop 10%) etc.

 

Thank you in advance!

[kickstart]

Most of this has already been answered in other posts.

Corn in Thailand is mainly used in livestock feed ,80% ??as they can not grow barley and wheat they use corn .

Modern day seed corn is F1 can only be grown once, seed corn is grown it was popular in this area for a few years ,but due to low pollination it was given up. and the seed was expensive .

Our local Betagro feed mill use to import maize from abroad ,use to see queues of trucks waiting to tip ,all come up from the port,not seen that now since Covid landed ,a coincidence ,I do not know.

For domestic use it would be sweet corn ,and the white corn,livestock corn is what Thai's call Khow Port Bang.

They is a small market for corn grown for maize silage ,used as cattle feed.