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A rice plantation near Chiang Mai. Rice production in Thailand represents a significant portion of the Thai economy and labor force. [1] In 2017, the value of all Thai rice traded was 174.5 billion baht, about 12.9% of all farm production. [2]
Thailand's food exports average one trillion baht annually. Locally consumed foods earn two trillion baht annually in the domestic market. Thailand is a leading food exporter: rice is the chief export, accounting for about 17.5 percent of all food exports, followed by chicken, sugar, processed tuna, tapioca flour, and shrimp.
Thailand has plans to further increase its land available for rice production, with a goal of adding 500,000 hectares to the 9.2 million hectares of rice-growing areas already cultivated. [48] The Thai Ministry of Agriculture expected rice production to yield around 30 million tons of rice for 2008. [ 49 ]
Rice production by country (2019) This is a list of countries by rice production in 2022 based on the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database. The total world rice production for 2022 was 776,461,457 [1] metric tonnes. In 1961, the total world production was 216 million tonnes.
At the mouth of the Chi River, where it enters the Mun River, a floodplain provides a good rice farming area. The total forest area is 346 km 2 (134 sq mi) or 4.4 percent of provincial area. [ 1 ]
Cambodian women planting rice. Rice is the main export of Thailand, especially white jasmine rice 105 (Dok Mali 105). [72] Thailand has a large number of rice varieties, 3,500 kinds with different characters, and five kinds of wild rice cultivates. [73] In each region of the country there are different rice seed types.
Sixty percent of cultivated land is devoted to rice paddies. The concentration on rice farming has made the farmers vulnerable to fluctuating prices. This has been reduced somewhat by increased diversification, but Isan still accounts for half of Thailand's exports of rice, cassava, and sugar. These crops employ 700,000 Isan families. [4]
Ubon Ratchathani is the nation's leading rice-producing province. It earns more than 10 billion baht a year from rice sales. [7] Ubonratchathani has many coffee cafes around the city in both downtown and in the rural area. This business runs the city lively. People tend to hang out on the weekend.