Bangkok: Sugar export from Thailand is expected to increase by 17% to 9 million tonnes in the 2022/23 production year compared to the last season, according to brecorder.
Thailand is expecting to produce 11.5 million tonnes of sugar by crushing 106 million tonnes of cane by the end of this season, said Samart Noiwan, director of the board’s strategy and planning division.
Sugarcane production has reached the level of 2019 to 100 million tonnes, he said. The increase in global prices and sufficient rainfall has boosted the sugarcane production in the country, he said.
Sugar output in Thailand was 10.15 million tonnes in 2021/22. The sugar mills had crushed 92.07 million tonnes of cane and had exported 7.69 million tonnes of sugar.
The domestic consumption of sugar is around 2.5 million tonnes in the country, said Samart.
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