Durian, rambutan exports tipped to make 30 billion baht this year

 

 

BANGKOK, 6 June 2017 (NNT) – Demands for Thai durian and rambutan are high in both domestic and export markets, with total export value this year estimated at 30 billion baht, according to the Office of Agricultural Economics (OAE). 

OAE Secretary-General Jariya Sutthichaiya said 2017 is the golden year for durian and rambutan, especially in the East of Thailand. High supplies are meeting high demand in the domestic and international markets, which have grown by 30-40% year on year. 

Crop quality has also improved due to the long winter period earlier this year. The garden-front price of the fruits is 50-60 baht per kilogram. 

Thai durian and rambutan are seeing demand from China, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Vietnam, leading to projections that durian exports this year will generate 25 billion baht in revenue, from last year's 20 billion. Rambutan exports are expected to generate five billion baht in revenue, from last year's 4.3 billion. 

Thailand's global fruit market share was valued at 595 billion baht over the first four months of 2017, as exports grew by 8.5% from last year to 434 billion baht.

 

-- nnt 2017-06-06

how do the exporters conquer the 'durian smell' ?

1 hour ago, YetAnother said:

how do the exporters conquer the 'durian smell' ?

 

What do you mean?

 

They ship them in full 40ft containers, (not overhead lockers!), mostly to China. 

 

 

Is there anywhere that one can go to address the problem of durian addiction ?

This number seems a lot over the top.That would be about 30% of what Thailands rice crop broght in 2016.

9 hours ago, webfact said:

Crop quality has also improved due to the long winter period earlier this year. The garden-front price of the fruits is 50-60 baht per kilogram. 

At my local markets Rambutans are selling at 25baht a kilo and durian are at 75 bahts a kilo. Where do they get the price from?

On 6/6/2017 at 8:56 PM, slappy said:

At my local markets Rambutans are selling at 25baht a kilo and durian are at 75 bahts a kilo. Where do they get the price from?

The price they gave was "garden front" or more commonly expressed as "farm gate price". It means the price the farmer gets, but you are talking about a retail price.  

On 6/6/2017 at 3:27 PM, sanukjim said:

This number seems a lot over the top.That would be about 30% of what Thailands rice crop broght in 2016.

 

According to ITC's www.trademap.org , in 2016, Thailand exported US$497,936,000 worth of fresh durian. So the 20 billion baht seems to be in the right ballpark, depending on what exchange rates you use, etc.  Half of that went to China, with HK, Taiwan and Vietnam also being key destinations. Rice may be planted on a much larger area but it is a low yielding, low value crop compared with horticultural crops like durian. If a farmer gets a modest yield of say 10 tons/hectare and sells at 50 baht/kg, then he would generate 500,000 baht/hectare (or 80,000 baht/rai) for one season's crop. You can check yourself what rice farmers earn. (We're talking gross, not net.) 

Surely - I cannot be the only guy with blues and fair skin that eats Durians ? I do not get the fuss..... Jack Fruit has a much more pungent aroma - sometimes I think westerners get the 2 mixed up ?

I can eat both but prefer Durian. Strangely I cannot stand Avacados - the only other fruit that is "fattening". Allegedly ?

 

 

If you want a fruit that stinks badly - try Palm nuts - they serve it as a drink in LoS and just smells of wet sweaty socks. The other fruit in the photo above in the brown spiky case (I don't know the Thai name) is pretty tasteless.

 

I spent some time in China - I saw the mountains of Thai Durian in the supermarkets and the queues to buy them.

 

 

On ‎6‎/‎06‎/‎2017 at 11:54 AM, YetAnother said:

how do the exporters conquer the 'durian smell' ?

They turn them into Kit Kats just as Madame Tourism said. Then the Chinese tourist come flocking.

On ‎6‎/‎06‎/‎2017 at 3:27 PM, sanukjim said:

This number seems a lot over the top.That would be about 30% of what Thailands rice crop broght in 2016.

Once the world capital of quality rice Thailand rice production is now on a downward spiral. They are sadly sticking to the practices from bygone years.

Thailand has one rice harvest a year but it generally high quality rice. South Vietnam has three harvests while North Vietnam which is cooler has two harvests a year. Their quality is far below that of Thailand.

Volume versus quality is what it all about when it comes to money.

Durian Ice Cream knocks all other flavours into a cocked hat